374: LI LI ACE JE. 



Rich woods, rare. April, May. Stem 6 to 8 inches high, smooth. Leaves rather 

 thick. V/ 2 to 2^ inches long, 1 to 2 inches wide, smooth and entire. Sepals groen, 

 % inch long. Petals narrow, 1 inch long. 



<5. T. nivale, Riddell. Snowy Trillium, 



Small ; leaves oval or ovate, obtuse ; petals oval-lanceolate, obtuse somewhat 

 wavy, white, as long as the peduncle, longer than the sepals. 



Rich shady woods, rare. April. Stem 2 to 4 inches high, fr^m a thick tub. rous 

 root. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, by 3^ to 1 inch wide. Sepals green, much narrowyx 

 than the petals. Petals % to 1 inch long. Styles long and filiform. 



2. MEDEOLA, Gronov. Indian Cucumber-root. 



Named after the sorceress Media, from its supposed medicinal virtues. 



Perianth revolutc, of 3 sepals and 3 petals. Stamens 

 6, inserted at the base of the perianth.: filaments thr 

 like, longer than the linear-oblong anthers. Styles 3, fili- 

 form, rccurved-diverging, deciduous. Berry spherical, 3- 

 celled, few-seeded. — A perennial herb, with a simple slender 

 stem ruing from a horizontal and tuberous white rootstock, bearing 

 a whorl of 5 to 10 sessile leaves near the middle and another of J 

 smaller ones at the ton, subtending a sessile umbel of small recurved 

 flowers. 



M. ViRGlNlCA, L. Cucumber Root. 



Leaves of ffie l&wer whcrl obcvate-lanceolate, pointed; upper onrs ovate. 

 Rich damp woeds, common. June. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, erect. P Livers 3 ta 

 C. girec-aish-yellow, refiexed, with long dark red reflexed stigmas. 



Order 125. ULIACEE.— Lily Family. 



Serbs, with parallel-nerved sessile or sheathing leaves, regular perfert C-;rardy 4)- 

 andrcus flower sicith a petal-Ule ^merous perianth fret from the 2 to 3-cell>:d ovary.— 

 Stamens 6 inserted into the perianth; anthers attached by a point. Style single; 

 6TIGVA simple or 3-loted. EfiEH a S-valved lcculicidal caps-uie or berry, few-niany- 

 eeeded. 



Tribe 1. ASPARAGE^E. The Asparagus Tribe. 



Fruit a few-seeded berry, 2 to 3-celled. Rooisiocks creeping or tuberous. 



1. ASPARAGUS, Linn. 



The ancient Greek name. 



Perianth 6-parted, spreading above. Stamens 6, witk 

 peltate anthers. Style short: stigma 3-lobed. Berry 

 spherical, 3-celled ; cells 2-seeded.— Perennials, with much- 

 branched stems from thick and matted rootstocks, narroto 

 leaves in clusicrs } and small greenish-yellow axillary flower*. 



