456 amartllidacejE. (amaryllis family.) 



tile. Pod membranaceous, 3-lobed. — Loaves and scape from a coated bulb 

 ITlowers 1 or 2, from a 1 -2-leaved spathe. (A poetical name.) 



1..A. AtamAsco, L. (Atamasco Lilt.) Spathe 2-eleft at the apex ; 

 perianth white and pink ; stamens and style declined. — Penn. {MM.) Virginia, 

 and southward. June. — Flower 3' long, on a scape 6' high. 



2. PAWCRATIUM, L. Pancratium. 



Perianth with a long and slender tube, and an equal 6-pai-tcd limb ; the lobes 

 long and narrow, recurved : the throat bearing a tubular or cup-shaped coroUiue 

 delicate crown, which connects the bases of the 6 exserted stamens. Antliers 

 linear, versatile. Pod tliin, 2 -3-lobed, with a few fleshy seeds, often like bulb- 

 lets. — Scapes and leaves from a coated bulb. Plowers large and showy in an 

 umbel-like head or cluster, leafy-bracted. (Name composed of irav, all, and 

 Kparvs, powerful, from fancied medicinal properties.) 



1. P. rotatnm, Kcr. Leaves ascending, strap-shaped (l°-2° long); 

 scape few-flowered ; the handsome (white and fragrant) flower with a spreading 

 large 12-toothed crown, the alternate teeth bearing the filaments. (Hymcno- 

 callis rotata, &c., Herbert.) — Marshy banks of streams, Kentucky, Virginia, and 

 southward. May. — Flowers opening at night or in cloudy weather. 



3. A O A YE, L. American Aloe. 



Perianth tubular-funnel-form, persistent, 6-parted ; the divisions nearly equal, 

 naiTOw. Stamens 6, soon exserted : anthers linear, versatile. Pod coriaceous, 

 many-seeded. Seeds flattened. — Leaves very thick and fleshy, often with car- 

 tilaginous or spiny teeth, clustered at the base of the many-flowered scape, from 

 a thick fibrous-rooted crown. (Name altered from ayauos, wonderful, not inap- 

 propriate as applied to A. Americana, the Century-plant.) 



1. A. Yirginica, L. (False Aloe.) Herbaceous; scape simple (3° 

 - 6° high) ; the flowers scattered in a loose wand-like spike, greenish-yellow, 

 very fragrant. — Dry or rocky banks, Penn.? Kentucky, Virginia, and south- 

 ward. Sept. 



4. HYFOXYS, L. Star-gkass. 



Perianth persistent, 6-parted, spreading ; the 3 outer divisions a little herba- 

 ceous outside. Stamens 6 : anthers erect. Pod crowned with the withered or 

 closed perianth, not opening by valves. Seeds globular, with a crustaceous 

 coat, ascending, imperfectly anatropous, the rhaphe not adherent quite down to 

 the micropyle, the seed-stalk thus foi-ming a sort of lateral beak. Radicle infe- 

 rior ! — Stemless small herbs, with grassy and haii-y linear leaves and slender 

 few-flowered scapes from a solid bulb. (Name composed of imo, beneath, and 

 o^vs, sluirp, it is thought because the pod is acute at the base. ) 



1. H. erecia, L. Leaves linear, grass-like, longer than the umbellately 

 1 -4-9owered scape ; divisions of the perianth hairy and greenish outside, yellow 

 within. — Meadows and open woods ; common. June - Aug. 



