526 LiLiACE^. (lily family.) 



ers; sepals dingy-green, oblanceolafc or spatulate (2" -3' long), those of the 

 sterile flowers on claws, widely spreading. (Melanthium monoicum, WalL 

 Leimanthium monoicum, Gray.) — Mountains of Virginia and southward. 



3, V. Wo6dii, Bobbins. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate ; pedicels 

 (Ij"- 3" long) shorter than the flowers, the oblanceolate spreading sepals (3"-4^" 

 long) dingy green turning brownish purple within : otherwise much as in the last, 

 of which it may be a variety ; but the flowers are mostly double the size, and 

 the panicle stouter. (Plant 3° - 6° high. ) — Woods and hilly barrens. Green 

 Co., Indiana, Wood. Augusta, Blinois, Mead. 



7. AMIANTHiUM, Gray. Fly-Poison. 



Flowers perfect. Perianth widely spreading ; the distinct and free petal-like 

 (white) sepals oval tir obovate, without claws or glands, persistent. Filaments 

 capillary, equalling or exceeding the perianth. Anthers, pods, &c., nearly as in 

 Melanthium. Styles thread-like. Seeds wingless, oblong or linear, with a loose 

 coat, 1 -4 in each cell. — Glabrous, with simple stems from a bulbous base or 

 coated bulb, scape-hke, few-leaved, terminated by a simple dense raceme of hand- 

 some flowers, turning greenish with age. Leaves linear, keeled, grass-like. 

 (From ajiiavTos, unspotted, and avBoi, floioer ; a name formed with more regard 

 to euphony than to good construction, alluding to the glandless perianth.) 



1. A. muscsetoxicum, Gray. (Fly-Poison.) Leaves broadly linear, 

 elongated, obtuse (J'-l' wide); raceme simple; pod abruptly 3-horned; seeds 

 oblong, with a fleshy red coat. (Helonias erythrospe'rma, Michx.) — Open 

 woods. New Jersey and Penn. to Kentucky and southward. June, July. 



8. XEROPHYLLUM, Michx. Xebophyllum. 



Flowers perfect. Perianth widely spreading ; sepals petal-like (white), oval, 

 distinct, without glands or claws, at length withering, about the length of the 

 awl-shaped filaments. Anthers 2-celled, short, extrorse. Styles thread-like, 

 stigmatic down the inner side. Pod globular, 3-lobed, obtuse (small), loculici- 

 dal ; the valves bearing the partitions. Seeds 2 in each cell, collateral, 3-an- 

 gled, not margined. — Herb with the aspect of an Asphodel ; the steta simple, 

 l°-4° high, from a bulbous base, bearing a simple compact raceme of showy 

 white flowers, thickly beset with needle-shaped leaves, the upper ones reduced 

 to bristle-like bracts ; those from the root very many in a dense tuft, reclined, a 

 foot or more long, 1' wide below, rough on the margin, remarkably dry and rigid 

 (whence the name from iipos, arid, and (j)v\^ov, leaf). 



1. X. asphodeloldes, Nutt. (X. tfenax, Nutt. X. setifolium, Michx. 

 Helonias asphodelioides, £.) — ^Pine barrens. New Jersey and southward: also 

 far westward. June. 



9. HELONIAS, L. Helokias. 



Flowers peffect. Perianth of 6 spatulate-oblong purple sepals, persistent, 

 turning gveen, shorter than the thread-like filaments. Anthers S-celled, round- 

 ish-oval, blue, extrorse. Styles revolute, stigmatic down the inner side. Pod 



