LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 
LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 
A wonderfully beautiful family, large and widely dis- 
tributed, mostly perennial herbs, growing from bulbs or 
root-stocks, with perfect, regular, symmetrical flowers and 
toothless leaves. The flower-cup almost always has six 
divisions, the outer often called sepals and the inner petals. 
The six stamens are opposite the divisions and sometimes 
three of them are without anthers. The styles or stigmas 
are three and the ovary is superior, developing into a 
three-celled capsule or berry, containing few or many seeds. 
There are several kinds of Anthericum, rather small, lily- 
like plants, with grasslike leaves, springing from the base 
and surrounded by the fibrous remnants of older leaves. 
The slender stems are leafless, or have one, very small, dry 
leaf; the roots thick and fleshy-fibrous; the flowers yellow, 
on pedicels jointed near the middle; the style long and 
slender; the pod oblong, containing several flattened, 
angular seeds in each cell. They are common in rocky soil, 
at altitudes of six thousand to nine thousand feet, from 
western Texas to Arizona. 
A beautiful little plant, with delicate 
Amber Lil : ‘ 
Metheees ti flowers, unusual and pretty in coloring. It 
Torreyi grows from eight to fifteen inches tall and 
Yellow has a slender, pale-green stem, springing 
Summer 
from a clump of graceful, pale bluish-green, 
grasslike leaves. The flowers are about 
three quarters of an inch long, pale orange or corn-color, 
with a narrow stripe on each division; the pistil green, with 
an orange stigma; the anthers yellow. The flowers fade 
almost as soon as they bloom. This grows in open woods. 
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