242 PRACTICAL BOTANY. 



base, spreading, or recurved above, and at the base some- 

 times distant and long-clawed. Anthers versatile. Style 

 elongated, somewhat club-shaped; stigma 3-lobed. Seeds in. 

 2 rows in each of the 3 cells of the pod. Leaves sessile, 

 numerous, alternate-scattered, or whorled. Stems from 

 scaly bulbs. Iiilium. 

 Flowers much smaller. Nectariferous furi-ows 

 none 745 



743. Sepals white, marked with a vertical green , stripe 

 outside, on the middle. Style 3-sided ; stigma 3-cornered, 

 Scape and cliannelled leaves linear, from a coated bulb. 

 Flowers 5-8, on long, spreading pedicels; corymbed. 



Oruithogaluin mnbellatum, L, 



Sepals not striped on the outside, deciduous. 



Style not 8-sided 746 



746. Stem leafy. Perianth-segments spreading, -white. 

 Berries pale red, speckled with purple, or red and not 

 speckled, or blackish. Leaves alternate. Eaceme simple, or 

 compound. Smilacina. 



Scape terete, or angled. Eaceme bracted 747 



747. Flowers white, nodding, sweet-scented, in a secund 

 raceme. Perianth bell-shaped. Style stout ; stigma 3-angled. 

 Leaves 2, oblong, with long, sheathing petioles 725 



Flowers blue, or purple. Sepals spreading. Style 

 filiform ; stigma minutely 3-cleft. Pod 3-angled ; seeds 

 several in each cell, black. Leaves long, linear, keeled. 



Scilla Fraseri, Torr. 

 {S. esculenta, Ker.). 



748. (712.) Perianth adhereni to the whole surface of 

 the ovary. Stemless herbs ; their scapes usually from a bulb, 

 rarely from a fibrous-rooted crown 750 



Perianth adherent only to the lower half of the 

 ovary. Herbs with a creeping root-stock, or a fibrous root. 



749 



.749. Perianth 6-cleft, yellow within, and woolly without. 



Stamens inserted near its base. Style conical, tripartible. 



Root creeping. Stem flexuous, white-woolly above. , Leaves 



equitant. Flowers in a loose, woolly corymb. 



IiopMola aurea, Ker. 

 (L. Americana, Wood.) 



