694 Oedeb 140.— AMAEYLLIDACB^. 



3-id ; seeds oo, 2 rows in each sell, black. — ^Bulb tunicated, sending up 

 a scape with linear Ivs. Spathe 1-leaved. Fls. erect, showy and beau- 

 tiful. Fig. 315. ' 

 Z. Atamasco Herbt. Spathe 2-oleft, acute; flowers solitary, pedioeled; cor. 

 catopanulate, suberect, with the segm. equally spreading above; filaments much 

 exceeding the tube, but shorter than the segments. — An attractive flower, in wet 

 clay soils, Va. to Pla. Lvs. linear, a foot long. Scape round, 6 to 12' high. 

 Spathe a little colored, bifid at the summit. Elower large, white and pink. Se- 

 pals lanceolate, 3 to 3J' long (including the 1' tube). March (S.), May (N:) 

 (AmaryUis L.). 



4. AGA^VE, L. (Gr. ayavoq, admirable.) Perianth tubular-funnel- 

 form, adherent to the ovary, 6-parted ; stamens 6, exserted ; anthers 

 linear, soon versatile ; capsule coriaceous, obtusely triangular, 3-celled, 

 many-seeded. — A splendid American genus. Koot sometimes ligneous. 

 Stem herbaceous. Lvs. mostly radical, thick and rigid, channeled, 

 often spiny. Scape many-flowered. 



1 A. Virglnioa L. False Aloe. Acaulescout, herbaceous ; lvs. linear-lanceo- 

 late, fleshy, glabrous, with cartilagmons serratures on the margin ; scape simpk, 

 glabrous, with leaf-lilce scales and sessile, tubular flowers. — Rooky banks, Penn. 

 to Sa. Root premorse, tuberous. Scape 4 to 6f high, terete, glabrous, loosely 

 spicate above. Radical leaves long, acute. Flowers 1' long, greenish-yellow, 

 very fragrant, tube longer than tho subulate segments. Anth. long exserted. 

 Capsule roundish, obscurely 3-anglod, 3-furrowed. Sept. \ 



2 A. Americana L. AnEErcAN Aloe. Century Plant. Acaulesoent; 

 lvs. spinous-dentate, lanceolate, coriaceous and fleshy ; scape branched, lofty and 

 arborescent ; cor. tube contracted in the middle ; pedicel as long as the corolla. — 

 The largest of all herbaceous plants, native of tropical America, often cultivated. 

 It is a popular notion that it flowers but onco in a hundred years, but it is known 

 to flower much oftener, according to the culture it receives. Leaves radical, 

 thick, 3 — 6 or 8f long, 4 — 12' wide. The scape arises from the center of the 

 leaves to the height of 15 to 2Bf, bearing a pyramidal panicle of innumerable yel- 

 low flowers. There is a variety with striped leaves, -j- 



5. POLYAN'THES, L. Tdbekose. (Gr. -KoXiq, many, avOeq) 

 Perianth superior, funnol-form, with a long, curved tube ; filaments in- 

 serted into the throat, included ; ovary at the bottom of the tube, the 

 summit free. — Rt. an upright rhizome, thick, producing tubers above. 

 St. terete, solid, simple, oo-flowerod. 



P. tuberosa L. Lvs. linear-lanceolato ; petals oblong. — A green-house plant 

 Sts. bulbous at base with tuberous branches. Scape scaly, 2 to 3f high, with al- 

 ternate, large, white, regular fls. of a delicious fragrance, which is most powerful 

 at evening. Aug., Sept. f Ceylon. 



G. SPREKE^LIA, Endl. Jacobea Lily. Perianth adherent G-leavcd, 

 Eubbilabiatc and spreading above ; inner segm. narrower ; stam. 6, in- 

 serted on the ovary, unequal, and with the style declined, but bending 

 up at apex. — Bulbous. Scape fistulous, 1-flowered. Lvs. linear., 



S. formos£ssima Herbt Los. radical ; fls. nodding, very ringent, tube 

 fringed ; sia. included in the involute lower segments. — A splendid flower, grown 

 in light, loamy soil, leaves thick, oblong, narrow. Scape a foot high. Spathe 

 red, disclosing a single large flower of a fine dark rod color. Jn. — Aug. 



7. GALAN'THUS, L. Snow-drop. (Gr. ydXa, milk, avOog; from 

 the color.) Perianth superior, segments distinct, the 3 inner shorter, 

 notched or lobod ; stamens 6, inserted on the top of the ovary, erect, 

 included ; style straight, longer than the stamens ; stigma entire ; cap- 



