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slender peduncles. Sepals tapev-poinled. Stigmas 3. Loaves 

 ovate-oblonf,', taper-pointed, closely sessile, doivny underneath. 

 Berry oblong or obovate, red. 



S. Strcp'toims. Stem leafy and forking. Flowers small, not quite in 

 the axils of the ovate clasping leaves, o« slender peduncles wMcli 

 are bent near tlie middle. Anthers arrow-shaped, 2-hornecl at the 

 a2>ex. 



0. Vcrn'truui. Stem tall and stout, very leafy to the top, from a thick- 

 ened base, producing coarse fibrous roots. Flowers yellowish- 

 green, in a pyramidal panicle of dense spike-like racemes. 

 Perianth somewhat spreading, slightly adherent to the ovary. 

 Filaments of the stamens recurved. Anthers kidney-shaped. 

 Styles 3. 



.*- ■*- Perianth of one^nece (pamophyllouS. J 



10. Siuiliici'un. Flowers small, white, in aterminal raceme. Periaufh 



G-parted, hut 4-2>arted in one fpecies^ spreading. Style short and 

 tliiek. Stigma obscurely robed. Filaments slender. 



11. I'olygoiia'tiiiu. Flowers small, greenish, nodding, mnstlyinpairs 



in the axils of the nearly sessile lea\'es. Perianth cylindrical, G- 

 . lobed at the summit, the e stamens inserted on or above the middle 

 of the tube. Stem simple, from a, long and knotted rootstock. 

 Leaves glaucous beneath, 



12. Aspar'agiLs. Flowers small, greenish-yellow, axillary, on. jointed 



pedicels. Perianth 6-parted, spreading above, the 6 stamens on 

 its base. Stigma 3-lobed. Berry globular, 3-celled. Stem much 

 branched. Lejives thread-like. Rootstock thick and matted. 



**^* Leaves straight-veined^ not grass-like. Stem usually frotji a 

 coated or scaly bulb. Style i, not divided above, but the stigma 

 sometimes 3-lobed. Frmt a pod, splitting open midway between 

 the partitions floculicidal. J 



13. Lll'liini. Stem leafy, tvom a scaly bulb, tlie leaves o/ten lohorled or 



crowded. Anthers at first erect, at length versatile. Style long, 

 rather club-shaped. Stigma 3-lobed. Pod oblong. Flowers large 

 and showy, one or more. 



14. Erytliro'iilnui. For full description see Part I., sections S2 and 83. 



(Dog's-tooth Violet.) 



1.5. Allinm. Scape nafed, from a coatef bulb. Flowers in an umbel, 

 fromaspatho. Style thread-like. Strong-scented ijlants. 



1«. Henicrocal'IIs. Scape not from a bulb, but from a fleshy-fibrous 

 root. Perianth large, orange-yellow, lily-like, the short tube en- 

 closing the ovary, the spreading limb 6-parted. Stamens 6, on the 

 perianth. 'Leaves long, linear, keeled, in 2 ranks, at the base of 

 the scape. Flowers several, bracted. 



