710 Obdee 148.— LILIACE^. 



margin rough-serrulate; segm. oblong, acutish. — ^Thickets, near the Bea-6oa8t,.S. 

 Car. to Fla. A shrubby, palm-liko plant, of singular and forbidding aspect when 

 not in flower. Leaves a foot or more long, sharp and rigid like daggers.' Fla. 

 white, with a violet base and violet spots. Jn. — Aug. (Y. Draconis '£.); 



6. NOLrNA, L. C. Kich. (For P. C. JSTolin, an American botan- 

 ist.) Dioecio-polygamous ; perianth (small) of 6, ovate, spreading, sub- 

 equal segments ; stamens 6, shorter than the perianth ; ovary free, 3- 

 cornered, 3-celled ; stigmas 3, recurved, with a very short style ; cap- 

 sule 3-winged, 3 (or by abortion 2 or l)-seeded. — Root bearing a coated 

 bulb. St. scape-like, branched into several long, simple, nearly bract- 

 less racemes of very small, white fls. 



N. Georgiana Mx. Dry sand hill."?, S. Car. and Ga. (Mettauer). Bulb very 

 large (Elliott). Scape 2 to 3f high, with a few short Ivs. at its base, which dimin- 

 ish to scales upwards. Root Ivs. linear, 1 to 2f long, numerous, recurved, their 

 bases much dilated and imbricated. Panicle large. Bfv;. loose, If or more long. 

 Pedicels 5 to 6" long. Perianth spreading 3". 



7. SCIL'LA, L. Squill. Perianth 6-parted, petals and sepals simi- 

 lar, spreading (blue or purple) ; filaments 6, subulate or filiform, smooth, 

 hypogynous ; style filiform-clavellate ; capsule free, 3-celled, 3-valved, 

 obtusely 3-angled ; cells with 1 or several roundish, black seeds. — Bulb 

 coated, bearing several linear Ivs. and a scape with a raceme. 



1 S. esculenta Ker. Quamash. Lvs. linear, carinate, flaccid and recurved, 

 tapering to both ends, shorter than the scape ; bracts solitary, subulate, scarious, 

 longer than th'e pedicels, which are about the length of the flowers ; fil. filiform ; 

 stig. 3-toothed. — Grassy, wet prairies, along the rivers, "Wis. to Ohio, the uplands 

 of Ga., and westward. Bulb nutritious, about 1' diam., resembling a small 

 onion. Scapo 1 to 2f high. Lvs. nearly as long, grass-like, Bac. 2 to 3' long. 

 Pet. and sep. linear-lanceolate, 4 to 6" long. Anth. oblong, yellow. May. 

 (Phalangium, Nutt. Camassla, Lindl. C. Praserl Torr.) — Improves by cultiva- 

 tion as to the size both of the bulbs and flowers. 



2 S prsebractedta Haw. Squill. Lvs. broad-linear, longer than the 

 scape ; bracts as long as the pedicels ; flowers in a large conical panicle ; perianth 

 spreading, persistent. — Bulb large, white. Fls. blue, f S. Eur. 



8. ORNITHOG'ALUM, L. Star-of-Bethlehem. {Gt. SpviOog, oi b. 

 Mfd, ydXa, milk ; why so-called is not obvious.) Perianth deeply 6- 

 parted, regular, persistent, segments many (3 to 7) veined, spreading, 

 (white, green or yellow) ; filaments 6, dilated at base, scarcely perigy- 

 nous, ovary free ; style erect, tapering or subtrilobate ; capsule 3-lobed, 

 3-celled, 3-valved above ; seeds few or many in each cell, shining, 

 black. — Bulbous plants, scarcely differing from Scilla except in the 

 color of the fls. 



1 O. crooeum Ell. Yellow Stae-of-Bethlehem. Lvs. narrowly linear, radi- 

 ical, longer than the slender scape which bears an oblong raceme of saffron-yeUoiv 

 flowers at top ; bracts scarious at apex, obtuse, sheathing, many times shorter 

 than the slender pedicel ; segm. lance-ovate, obtuse, 3-veined, erect after flower- 

 ing, with a greenish-orange stripe on the back ; sty. and stam. subtilate, shorter 

 than the segments. — Mid. Ga., rare. (On Stone Mt., 16m. from Atlanta! Also 

 at Macon, Dr. Meltauer.) Scape 10 to 20' high, almost filiform. Eac 10 to 15- 

 flowered. Ped. 8 to 12" long, fla. half as longi Apr., May. (Phalangium Mx, 

 Nutt.) 



2 O. timbell^tum L. WmTE Stae-op-Bethlehem. Lvs. linear, channeled, as 

 long as the scape, emarginate ; scape hearing a few white, green-striped fis. in a 

 loose corymb ; pedicels longer than the bracts ; filaments lanceolate-subulate. — 

 Gardens, and naturalized in many localities. Scape near If high. Segm. of the 

 star-like perianth beautifully marked with a longitudinal stripe on the outside* May. 



