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AMARYLLIDACEAE (AMARYLLIS FAMILY) 



purple or white or greenish. Stigmas stout, distinct, spreading or re- 

 curved. Rich woods. Flowers with a disagreeable odor. 



T. grandiflorum. Ovary and fruit 6-angled. Flower pediceled. 

 Anthers when mature extending beyond the stigmas. Petals oblance- 

 olate, white, turning rose color or marked with green. Stigmas very 

 slender, rather erect, and somewhat coherent. Rich woods. 



T. cernuum. Ovary and fruit 6-angled. Flower pediceled. An- 

 thers when mature not extending beyond the stigmas. Leaves very 

 broadly ovate. Peduncles usually recurved. Petals white or pink, 

 wavy, recurved, spreading. Moist woods. 



T. undulatum. Ovary and fruit 3-lobed or angled. Filaments 

 slender, about equaling the anthers. Leaves with petioles, ovate, taper- 

 pointed. Petals pointed, wavy, widely spreading; white, painted with 

 purple stripes at the base ; shorter than the peduncle. Called the 

 Painted Trillium. Cold woods and swamps. 



Smilax herbacea. Carrion flow- 

 er, a, pistillate inflorescence; 

 h, jtaminate inflorescence; c, 

 staminate flower; d, vegeta- 

 tion shoot with tendrils. 



SMILAX 



Flowers dioecious, umbellate. Leaves 

 net-veined. Perianth-segments distinct, 

 deciduous, small, greenish or yellow- 

 ish. Fruit a small berry. 



S. herbacea, Carrion-flower. Stem 

 herbaceous, climbing, not prickly. Flow- 

 ers carrion-scented. Berries bluish-black 

 with a bloom. Leaves ovate or rounded, 

 mostly heart-shaped at base, abruptly 

 acute. Peduncles 4-20 cm. long, often 

 much longer than the leaves, 20-40 flow- 

 ered. Common in moist meadows and on 

 river banks. June. 



AMARYLLIDACEAE (Amaryllis Family) 



Herbs, chiefly bulbous and with scapes, linear, flat root-leaves, 

 and regular, perfect, 6-androus flowers. 



HYPOXIS 



Stemless small herbs with grass-like and hairy linear leaves and 



