330 AMAETLLIS FAMILY. 



§ 2. Scape and moslly smooth leaves from a coated bulb. 

 # A cup-skaped, funnel-shaped, or saucer-shaped croion on the throat of the perianth, 



2. NARCISSUS. Perianth with a more or less cylindrical tube, 6 equal widely- 



spreading divisions, and stamens of unequal length included in the cup or 

 crown. Scape with one or more flowers, from a searious 1-leaved.spathe. 



3. PANCRATIUM. Perianth with a slender tube, 6 long and nan-ow divisions; 



and a cup to which the long filaments adhere below, and from the edge of 

 which they project. Anthers luiear, fixed by the middle. Scape bearing a 

 few flowers in a cluster, surrounded by some leaf4ike or scmous bracts.. 



# # No cup nor crown to thejlower, or only minute scales sometimes in th^tiiroat. "^ 

 ^- Filaments borne on the tube of the flower: anthers fixed by the middle, versatile : 

 spathe of 1 or 2 scales or bracts.' 



4. CRINUM. Perianth with a slender long tube and 6 mostly long and narrow 



spreading or recurved divisions. Stamens long. Scape solid, bearing few or 

 many flowers, in an umbel-like head. Bulb often columnar and rising as if 

 into a sort of stem. Leaves in several ranks. 

 6. AMARYLLIS. Perianth' various; the divisions oblong or lanceolate. Scape 

 bearing one or more flowers. Leaves mostly 2-raukea. 



I- -I- Filaments on the ovary at the base of the e-parted perianth: anthers erect, not 

 versatile : spathe a bract opening on one side. i 



6. GALANTHUS. Scape with usually a single small flower on a nodding pedicel. 



Perianth of 6 oblong separate concave pieces; the three inner shorter, less 

 spreading, and notched at the end. Anthers and style pointed. 



7. LEUCOIUM. Scape bearing, 1-7 flowers on nodding pedicels. Perianth of 



6 nearly separate oval divisions, all alike. Anthers blunt. Style thickish 

 upwards. 



§ 2. Stems leafy, or scape beset with bracts, from a tuberous rootstocJc or crovm^ 



8. ALSTRCEMERIA. Stems slender and weak or disposed to climb, leafy to the 



top, the thin lanceolate or linear leaves commonly twisting or turning over. 

 Flowers in a terminal umbel. Perianth Srparted nearly or quite to the ovary, 

 rather tell-sliaped^ often irregular as if somewhat 2-lipped. Stamens more or 

 less declined. Style slender: stigma 3-cleft. 



9. POLIANTHES. Stem erect andisimple.from a thick tuber, hearing longjinear 



channelled leaves, and a spike qt •jrfute flowers. Perianth with a cylindrical 

 and somewhat funnel-shaped slightly curved tube, and 6 about equal spread- 

 ing lobes. Stamens included in the tube : anthers erect. The summit of the 

 6vary and pod free from the calyx-tube; in this and other respects it ap- 

 proaches the Lily Family. 

 10. AGAVE. Leaves thick and fleshy with a haM rind and a commonly spiny 

 margin, tufted on the crown, which produces thick fibrous roots, and sucters 

 and offsets ; in floweriiig sends up a bracted scape, bearing a, spike or panicles 

 of yellowish flowers. Perianth tubular-funnel-sliaped, persistent, with 6 nai^ 

 row almost equal division."!. Stamens projecting: anthers linear, versaiile. 

 Pod containing numerous flat seeds. 



1. HYPOXYS, STAE-GRASS. (Name from the Greek, means acute at 

 the base ; the pod is often so. ) 



H. erfecta, the common species, in grass; with few-flowered scape 3' -8' 

 high, and leaves at Tength longer ; yellow star-like flower over J' broad. 



2. NARCISSUS, ( Greek name, that of the young man in the mythology 

 who is said to have been changed into this flower.) Most of theni arc per- 

 fectly hardy : fl. spring. ' 



17. posticus, Port's N. Leaves nearly flat; scape l-flowgred; crown of 

 the white flower edged with pink, hardly at all projecting fl-om the yellowish 

 throat : in full double-flowered varieties the crown disappears. 



N. taifldrus, Two-rLOWERED N., or Primrose Peerless of the old 

 gardeners, has two white or pale straw-colored flowers, and the crown in tlie 

 form of a short yellow cup. 



N. polydjlthos is the parent of the choicer sorts of Polyaxthus K. ; 

 flowers nnmerous, white, the cup also white. 



