210 POPULAR FLORA. 



Fruit a, few-seeded berry: flowers small. Herbs from rootstocks: no bulbs. 



Steins much branched: leaves fine and thread-shaped, in clusters, (A^dragus) *Asparagus 

 Stems simple above ground and leafy. Leaves oblong or lance-oblong. 



Flowers axillary, nodding, greenish; perianth tubular, 6-lobed: stamens above 

 the middle, on very short filaments. Rootstock thick, marked with 

 broad round scars on the upper side (Fig. 63), {Polygondium) Solomon'«-Seai*. 

 Flowers in a terminal raceme, white: perianth 6-parted, in one case 4-parted, 

 the divisions narrow and widely spreading, the stamens on its base: 

 filaments slender, {Smilacina) Smilacina. 



Stems or scape simple and leafless above ground; the broad leaves all from its base 

 or from the slender rootstock. 

 Flowers small, in a slender raceme, white; perianth bell-shaped, 6-Iobed (Fig. 3): 



leaves very smooth, ( 0>nvallaria) *Lily-of-the- Valley 



Flowers rather large, in an umbel, greenish-yellow or whitish: perianth 6-leaved: 



leaves of the plant ciliate, ( Clintbnia) Clintokia 



Fruit a 3-celled pod, splitting into 3 valves when ripe. 



Perianth wheel-shaped, or sometimes erect or bell-shaped, 6-leaved : flowers on a 

 scape or nearly naked stem, rising from a coated bulb: seeds round 

 and black, few. 

 Flowers in a corymb, white: style 3-sided, ( Omithdgalum) *Star-of-Bethleitem. 



Flowers in a raceme, blue or purple: style thread-like, {Scilla) Squill. 



Flowers in an umbel from a scaly bract or involucre, {Allium) Onion, 



Perianth funnel-shaped, bell-shaped, or globs-shaped, more or less united into a tube 

 or cup, bearing the 6 stamens, except in some Day-Lilies. 

 Scape and leaves from a coated bulb : flowers in a raceme. Leaves narrow. 



Perianth globular, blue, small, {AMuscari) *Grape-Hyacinth. 



Perianth short, funnel-shaped or bell-shaped, 6-cleft, {flyacinthus) *Hyacinth. 



Scape or stem leafy towards the bottom, from fibrous roots (no bulb), bearing a 

 few large flowers in a cluster at the top : stamens curved to one side. 

 Flower opening for only one day, (Hemerocdllis) *Day-Lilt 



Perianth bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, &c., but of 6 separate petal-like divisions: 

 seeds many, mostly fiat, pale. 

 Simple-stemmed herbs from a scaly or coated bulb : stamens on the receptacle 

 or attached to the very base of the deciduous perianth. 

 Anthers fixed by their middle and swinging free: stems leafy to the top. 



No honey-bearing spots, or merely a groove at the bottom of each divis- 

 ion of the perianth. Bulb scaly, (Lilium) Lilt. 

 A round and large honey-bearing spot near the bottom of each division 



of the perianth, (Petilium) *Crown-Imperiai* 



Anthers erect on the filament, appearing to be fixed by their base : stem or 

 scape leafy only at or towards the bottom. 

 Style none or hardly any: stigmas 3 on the long 3-sided ovary, ( Titlipa) *TuLre 

 Style long: ovary roundish : leaves 2, spotted, {Jtlrytkrdnium) Dogtooth- Violet. 

 Stems woody, palm-like, or not rising above the ground, from roots or rootstocks 

 (no bulbs): leaves evergreen, sword-shaped. Flowers white, tulip- 

 shaped, in a large, terminal, compound panicle, { Yticca) YuocA 



