340 LILT FAMILY. 



§ 1. From a coated or sometimes scaly bulb, 



* Stem leafy, especially above, the leaves often whorled or crowded: divisions of Oil 



perianth with a lioaey-beaHng furrow or spot nt or near the base: style hmg: 

 stigmas or lobes 3 : pod pachea with 3 rows of depressed and fiat s^'t-coated 

 seeds in each cell. Flowers large, often several. 



21. LILIUJI. Flower bell-shaped or funnel-foi-m with the separate or partly united 



divisions spreading or recurved above : the honey-bearing-gi-oove beginning 

 at their base. Anthers linear, at'first erect, at length versatile. Pod oblong; 

 Bulb mostly scalv (Lessons, p. 46, fig. 73, 74). 



22. FRITILLARiA. bivisions of the bell-shaped flower distinct, not at all re- 



curving; the honey-bearing spot above their base. Bulb coated or scaly. 

 Flowers always nodding, otten spotted. 



* * Stem 2-leaved or few-leaved at or towards the base, naked aJ)Ove and ordinarily 



1-fioivered at summit : the six pieces of' the bell-shaped perianth separate : sta^ 

 mens on the receptacle or nearly so : anthers erect : seeds many, pale. 



23. TULIP A. Stem 1 - 2-leaved above the ground, bearing an erect large flower. 



Divisions of the pei'ianth broad, not recurved nor spreading. Ovary and pod 

 triangular, columnar: stigmas 3, sessile. Seeds nearly as in Lily. 



24. EEY THRONIUM. Scape 2-leaved from the ground, bearing a nodding flower. 



Divisions of the periantli lanceolate, recurved or spi'eadine above. Ovary 

 and pod obovate: seeds globulai-.. Style long, more or less club-shaped. 



* * * Scape naked, bearing several or many flowers: seeds ^ery few, globular or 



angled, mostly iinUi a crustaceous or brittle black coat. 

 ^- Perianth ^-parted or 6-sepalled, either wheel-shaped or less widely spreading. 



25. ORXITHOGALUM. Flowers iu a corymb, bracted, white, wheel-shaped. 



Style S-sided : stigma 3-angled. 



26. ALLIUM. Flowers in a simple umbel, from a 1-2-leaved or scarious spathe. 



Style persistent, slender: stigma entire. 



27. SCILLA. Flowers in a simple raceme, mostly blue. Style slender. 



1- ^- Perianth merely S-ioothed or 6-clefl, bearing the short included stamens on its 

 tube : pod triangular. 



28.' JIUSCAEI. Flowers in a raceme; the globular or xtm-shaped narrow-mouthed 

 perianth nearly 6-toothed. 



29. HYACINTHUS. Flowers in a raceme ; the short-funnel-shaped or bell-shaped 



perianth 6-cleft, the lobes spreading. 



§ 2. Scape and leaves from a tuberous rootstoch or fibrous-rooted croton: no bulb. 

 » Stamens and styles long and slender, declijied: stigma nearly simple : flowers large. 



30. AGAPANTHUS. Flowers in a 2-bracted umbel, blue. Perianth tubular at 



base, _with 6 widely spreading divisions nearly reralar. Pod triangular, 

 many'seeded. Seeds flat, brownish, winged above. Leaves linear, flat. 



31. FUNK'fA. Flowers in a raceme, blue or white. Perianth funnel-foi-m, 6-cleft, 



the lobes hardiv spreading, somewhat irregular. Pod oblong, prismatic, 

 many-seeded. Seeds flat, black, with a soft and thin coat, winged at the 

 apex. Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, netted-vehiy between the ribs, and on 

 long petioles. 

 82. HEMEROCALLIS. Floivers few on a somewhat branching scape, yellow, 

 lasting but a day. Perianth funnel-form, with short narrow tube closely in- 

 vesting the ovary; the nearly similar divisions more or less spreading. Pod 

 thick, at first fleshy. Seeds' few in each cell, roundish, with a hard and brit- 

 tle black coat. Leaves linear, grassy, keeled. 



« » Stamens andslyle straight, protruding from the tubular perianth. 

 33. TEITOMA. Flowers very many, nodding in a dense raceme or spike on a 

 bracted scape. Perianth tubular, regular, red or yellow, 6-toothed. Fila- 

 ments of two lengths. Pod many-seeded. Leaves nan-ow-linear, long and 

 grassy, keeled, crowded at the root. 

 § 3. Stem a woody trunk, either short or tree-like, bearing a croicd of rigid and 

 pujngent -pointed sword-shaped persistent leaves : no bulb. 

 82. YUCCA. Flowers in an ample terminal compound panicle, large, often polyga- 

 mous, white or whitish. Perianth of 6 separate oval or oblong acute divis- 

 ions, not deciduous, the 8 inner broader, longer than the stamens. Stigmas 

 3, sessile. Pod oblong, many-seeded; the depressed seeds as iu Lily. 



