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fi-r^.— Pennsylvania : Monroe ; Schuylkii<i< ; Lebanon ; Lancaster ; 

 Chester ; Carbon ; Philadelphia ; Pike. 



3. VERATRUM L. 

 1. Veratrum ^111(36 Ait. American White Hellebore. Indian 

 Poke. (Man. p. 259 ; I. F. /. g84.) In swamps, Quebec to Alaska, Ga., 

 Minn, and B. C. — Pennsylvania : Monroe ; Schuylkill ; Northamp- 

 ton ; Lancaster ; Franklin ; Bucks ; Blair ; Lebanon ; Perry ; 

 Luzerne ; Delaware, Media ; Chester ; Erie. 



4. STBNANTHIUM Kunth. 



1. Stenanthium robustum S.Wats. StouT STENANTHium. (Man. 

 p. 257 ; I. F. /. p8;. ) In moist soil, Pa. and Ohio to S. C. and Tenn. — 

 Pennsylvania : Lancaster ; Clarion ; Armstrong ; Allegheny. 



5. MELANTHIUM L. 



Blades of the sepals and petals oblong, entire : leaf -blades linear or nearly so. 



I. M. yirginicum. 

 Blades of the sepals and petals suborbicular, undulate or crisped : leaf-blades 

 manifestly broadest above the middle. 2. M. lalifolium. 



1. Melanthium Virginicum L. BunCH-flower. (Man. p. 259 ; I. 

 F. f. gSi. ) In meadows and wet woods, R. I. to N. Y., Minn., Fla. and 

 Tex. — Pennsylvania . Lancaster ; Allegheny ; Huntingdon ; 

 Franklin ; Chester ; Delaware. 



2. Melanthium latifolium Desr. Crisped Bunch-flower. (Man. 

 p. 259; I. F. f. 982.) In dry woods and on hills. Conn, to Pa. and S. C. 

 — Pennsylvania : Northampton ; Bucks ; Dauphin ; Huntingdon ; 

 Monroe ; Armstrong. 



Family 3. LILIACEAE Adans. Lily Family. 



Herbs with bulbs or corms. 

 Flowers in umbels, at first included in, later subtended by ascarious invo- 

 lucre. I. Allium, 

 Flowers solitary or racemose, sometimes whorled, without an involucre. 

 Sepals and petals distinct. 

 Anthers not introrse. 

 Anthers versatile. 2. Lilium. 

 Anthers erect. 

 Flower erect : capsule columnar : seed flat. 3. Tulipa. 

 Flower nodding : capsule obovoid : seed globular. 



4. Erythronium. 

 Anthers introrse. 

 Filaments filiform. 5. Quamasia. 



Filaments flattened. 6. Ornithogalum. 



Sepals and petals more or less united. 



^"erianth urn-shaped, with tooth-like lobes. 7. Muscari. 



,>^^erianth funnelform, with spreading lobes. 8. Hemerocali.is. 



Shrubby plants with woody caudices. 9. Yucca. 



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