340 LILT FAMILT. 



§ 1. From a coated or sometimes scaly buBj. 



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



perianth with a honey-bearing funvw or spot at or near the base : style hng : 

 stigmas or lobes 3 ; pod packed with 2 rows of depressed and flat soft-coated 

 seeds in each cell. Fknoers large, often several. 



21. LILIUM. Flower bell-shaped or funnel-form 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 scaly (Lessons, p. 46, fig. 73, 74). 



22. FRITILLARIA. Divisions ot the bell-shaped flower distinct, not at all re- 



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

 Flowers always nodding, often spotted. 



* * Stem 2-leaved or few-leaved at or towards (he base, Tioked above and ordinarily 



l-fiow&red at summit ; the six pieces of tlie bell-shaped peHanth separate : sia- 

 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 perianth broad, not recurved nor spreading. Ovary and pod 

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



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



Divisions of the perianth lanceolate, reeui-ved or spreading above. Ovary 

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



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



angled, mostly with a crustace'om or brittle black coat. 

 .*- Perianth 6-paried or G-sepaUed, either wheel-shaped or less widtly spj'eading. 



25. ORNITHOGALUM. Flowers in a corymb, bracted, white, wheel-shaped. 



Style 3-sided : stigma 3-angled. , . 



26. ALLIUM. Flowers in a simple umbel, fiom 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 6-topthed or 6-cleft, beating the short included stamens on its 

 tube : pod triangular. 



28. MUSCAEI. Flowers in a raceme; the globular or urn-shaped narrow-mouthed 



perianth nearly 6-toothed. 

 ■ 29. HYACINTHUS. Flowers in a raceme ; the short^funnel-shaped or beU-shaped 

 perianth 6-cleft, the lobes spreading. 



§ 2. Scape and leaves from a tuberous rootstock orflbrous-rooted crown : lio bulb. 



* Stamens and styles long and slender, declined: stigma nearly simple: flowers large. 



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



base, with 6 widely spreading divisions nearly regular. Pod triangular, 

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



31. FUNKJA. Flowers in a raceme, blue or wTiite. Perianth fnnnel-fonii, C-cleft, 



the lobes hardlv 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-veiny between the ribs, and on 

 long petioles. 



32. HEMEEOCALLIS. Flowers few on a somewhat branching scape, yellow, 



lasting but a day. Perianth funnel-form, with short nai-row 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, gi-assy, keeled. 



* * Stamens and style straight, protruding from the tubular perianth. 



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



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

 ments of t-H^o lengths. Pod manv-seeded. Leaves nan-ow-linear, long and 

 gi-assy, keeled, crowded at the roo't. 

 § 3. Stem a looody trunk, either short or tree-like, bearing a croiod of Hgid and 

 pungent-poinled sword-sliaped persisteTit leaves: no bulb. 

 32. YUCCA. Flowers in an ample terminal compound panicle, large, often polj-^ 

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

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

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



