333 t-It-T FAMILY. 



§ 1. StemUss : the large fimoer with a long tube rising direct^ from a tkin-eoated 

 tMd bulb or corm: anthers 2-ceUed. 



8. COLCHICUM. Perianth resembling that ef a Crocus. Stamens borne on the 

 throat of the long-tubular perianth. Styles very long. 



§ 2. Perianth without any tube, of 6 distinct or almost separate divistons. 



* Anthers 2-ceUed, short : flowers in a sim/dti raceme or spike : pod lucuHcidaL 



i. CHAM^LIEIUM. Flowers dicecions or mostly so. Perianth of 6 small and 



narrow white pieces. Pod ovoid-oblong, many-seeded. Spike or raceme 



slender. 

 6. HELONIAS. Flowers perfect, in a short dense raceme, lilac-purple, turning 



green in fniit; the divisions spatulate-oblong, spreading. Filaments slender: 



anthers blue. Pod 3-lobed ; cells many-seeded. 

 6. XEBOPHYLLUM. Flowers perfect, in a compact raceme, white; the divisions 



oval, sessile, widely spreading, naked. Filaments awl-shaped. Pod globular, 



3-lobed, with 2 wingless seeds in each cell. 



• » Anthers Mdney-shaped or round heart-shaped, the tim cells confluent into one, 

 shielij-shnpea after opening : styles awl-shaped : pod S-horned, septicidal : seeds 

 commonly fl^ oi' Ihinr^margined, 



T. AMIANTHIUM. Flowers perfect, mostly in a simple raceme. Perianth white, 

 the oval or obovate spreading divisions without claws or spots. Filaments 

 long and slender. Seeds wingless, 1-4 in each cell. Leaves chiefly from the 

 bulbous base of the scape-like stem, linear, keeled, grass-like. 



8. STENANTHIUM. Flowers polygamous, in panicled racemes on a leafy stem. 



Perianth white, with spreading and not.spotted lanceolate divisions tapering 

 to a narrow point from a broader base, which coheres with the base of the 

 ovary. Stamens very short. Seeds several, wingless. Leaves linear, keeled, 

 grass-like. 



9. VERATEUM. Flowers polygamous, in panicled racemes. Perianth greenish 



or brownish, its obovate-oblong divisions narrowed at base, free from the 

 ovary, not spotted. Filaments short. Seeds rather numerous, wing-margined. 

 Leaves broad, many-nerved. Base of the leafy stem more or less bulb-like, 

 producing many long white roots. 



10. MELANTmUM. Flowers polygamous, in racemes forming an open pyramidal 



paniole. Perianth cream-colored, turning green or brownish with age, per- 

 fectly free from the ovary, its heart-shaped or oblong and partly halberd- 

 shaped widely spreading divisions raised on a claw and marked with a pair 

 of darker spots or glands. Filaments short, adhering to the claws of the 

 perianth, persistent. Seeds several in each cell, broadly winged. Leaves 

 lanceolate or linear, mostly grass-like. Stem roughish-downy abov?, its 

 base more or less bulbous. 



11. ZYGADENUS. Flowers pefect or polygamous, in a terminal panicle. Peri- 



anth greenish white, its oblong or ovate widely spreading divisions spotted 

 with a pair of roundish glands or colored spots near the sessile or almQst 

 sessile base. Stamens free from and about the length of the perianth. Leaves 

 • linear, grass-like ; stem and whole plant smooth. 



III. BELL WORT FAMILY; with alternate and broad not 

 grass-like parallel-veined leaves : stem from a rootstock or from 

 fibrous roots, branching and leafy : style one at the base, but 3-cleft 

 or 3-parted. Fruit a pod, few-seeded. Anthers turned rather 

 outwards than inwards. Perianth of 6 almost similar and wholly 

 i^eparate pieces, deciduous. Not acrid nor poisonous. Plants inter- 

 mediate between the preceding groups and the next. 



12. UVULARIA. Flowers solitary or sometimes in pairs at the end or in the forks 



of the forking stem, drooping, yellowish; the perianth rather bell-shaped 

 and lily-like, its divisions spatulate-lanceolate, with a honey-bearing groove 

 or pit at tlie erect narrowed base. Stamens short, one at the base oF each 

 division: anthers linear, much longer than the filaments. Pod triangular or 

 8-lObed, loculicidal from the top. Seeds thick and roundish. 



