LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 
A handsome graceful plant, with one 
Share or more stiff stems, from six inches to 
élegans three feet tall, springing from a large 
White clump of rather stiff, bluish-green leaves, 
ee covered with a pale “bloom,” and bearing 
fine clusters of cream-white flowers, less 
than an inch across, their divisions united below and 
adhering to the base of the ovary and each with a sticky, 
bright-green, heart-shaped gland. This grows in moist 
places in the mountains, across the continent. 
Much like the last, but the foliage with 
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less ‘‘bloom’”’ and the flowers handsomer 
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Fremontii and rather larger. Their divisions are 
White free from the ovary, only the inner divi- 
Spring, summer 
ise sine sions have claws, and the glands are 
greenish-yellow and toothed. This grows 
among bushes, on hillsides and sea-cliffs along the coast. 
et ee Not nearly so handsome as the two 
igeataas last, but a pretty plant, from one to two 
venendsus feet tall, with dull-green leaves, folded 
White lengthwise, with rough edges. The cream- 
Spring 
colored flowers are less than half an inch 
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across, striped with green on the outside, 
their divisions free from the ovary and all with claws, 
with roundish, greenish-yellow glands, not toothed, and 
with long stamens. This grows in meadows and the bulb 
is very poisonous except to hogs, so it is often called Hog’s 
Potato. 
There are several kinds of Veratrum, natives of the 
north temperate zone; tall, perennial herbs, with thick, 
short, poisonous rootstocks; stems tall and leafy, more or 
less hairy; leaves broad, plaited, with conspicuous veins; 
flowers more or less downy, polygamous, whitish or green- 
ish, in a cluster, their six, separate divisions colored alike, 
adhering to the base of the ovary, without glands, or nearly 
so, and without claws; stamens opposite the divisions, 
with heart-shaped anthers; styles three; capsule three- 
lobed, with several flat, broadly-winged seeds in each com- 
partment. Veratrum is the ancient name for Hellebore. 
