_ Perianth 6-cleft, white or yellowish, minutely war- 

 ty outside, looking scurfy, or mealy. Stamens inserted in its 

 ^^''■oat. Style awl-shaped, or 3-sided, 3-cleft at the apex. 

 Koot fibrous. Scape bearing the numerous flowers in a wand- 

 hke spiked raceme. Leaves lanceolate, clustered at the base. 



Aletris. 



750. The throat of the slender perianth-tube bearing a 

 lop-shaped, amjjle, delicate, 12-toothed membrane (crown), 

 which connects the bases of the exserted stamens. Anthers 

 linear, versatile. Pod thin. Scape and long, strap-shaped 

 leaves from a coated bulb. Flowers large, showy, about 3 

 inches long, white, 2 to (usually but 2). 



Pancratium rotatum, L. 

 Crown none Vol 



751 Anthers versatile ^52 



Anthers erect. Perianth parted nearly down to the 

 ovary, the segments yellow within, hairy and greenish out- 

 side. Scapes several, slender, hairy, bearing 1-4, peduncled 

 flowers at the top. Leaves linear, grass-like. 



Hypoxis erecta, L. 



753. Flower solitary, large (over 3 inches long), white 



and pink, very showy, peduncled, from a 1-leaved, 2-cleft 



spathe. Stamens inserted into the throat of a funnel-form 



perianth. Scape and long, linear leaves from a coated bulb. 



Zephyrauthus Atamasco, Herb. 



{Amaryllis Atamasco, L.) 



Flowers several, 1 inch long, greenish-yellow, Te;'y 

 fragrant, sessile, scattered along the scale-bearing, elongated 

 scape. Leaves linear, lanceolate, very thick and fleshy, the 

 margin with cartilaginous teeth, clustered at the base. Root 

 tuberous. Agave Virginica, L, 



753. (642.) Ti-ees, with simple deciduous leaves, and fas- 

 ciculate, rarely racemose flowers. Perianth 7- to 9-cleft. 

 Styles or stigmas 2. Stamens 7-9. Ulmus. 



Herbaceous plants. Perianth apparently 8- 

 to 10-cleft 754 



754. Stamens 1 or 4. Perianth inferior, tubular, ap- 

 parently 8-, biit really 4-parted, with as many alternate 



