LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 
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There are several kinds of Zygadene, natives of North 
America and Siberia. They mostly have coated bulbs, 
resembling onions, and white or greenish flowers, in clusters, 
the leaves long, smooth, folded lengthwise and springing 
mostly from the root. The flowers are perfect or polyg- 
amous, the six divisions alike, with one or two, greenish, 
glandular spots at the base of each; the styles three, dis- 
tinct; the fruit a three-lobed capsule, with several or many 
seeds in each compartment. The name is from the Greek 
for ‘‘yoke”’ and ‘‘gland,’’ because some kinds have a couple 
of glands on each division of the flower. 
: A handsome, rather stout plant, about 
Poison Sego 
Posadowes a foot tall, with bright light-green, smooth, 
paniculdtus graceful leaves sheathing the stem, which 
Cream-white has a papery bract around its base. The 
Spring, summer 
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Utah, Nev., Idaho LOWerS are in clusters varying in shape, 
sometimes growing in a long, loose raceme 
and sometimes in a closer, pointed cluster. The divisions 
of the rather small, cream-white flowers have short claws, 
with a yellow gland and a stamen at the base of each. The 
stamens are conspicuous, with swinging, yellow, shield- 
shaped anthers, and are at first longer than the three styles, 
which gradually lengthen and, together with the stamens, 
give a delicate, feathery appearance to the whole flower 
cluster. This grows on dry hillsides and in meadows. The 
bulb is very poisonous. 
