456 THE LILY FAMILY. [Paris. 



Perianth spreading, divided to the base. Leaves alter- 

 nate 4. MAIANTHEMUM. 



Fruit a capsule. 

 Rootstock not bulbous. 

 Flowers of a brownish white, paniculate . . .15. Simethis. 

 Flowers yellow, in a raceme or spike. 



Style simple 16. Narthecium. 



Styles 3. Stigmas capitate 17. Tofieldia. 



Stigmas 3, sessile, feathery Trigloohin (p. 430). 



Rootstock bulbous. 

 Flowers in a terminal umbel or head . . . .14. Allium. 

 Flowers solitary, or in a terminal raceme. 

 Perianth-segments spreading. 

 Perianth white, with pink stripes. Flowers 



usually solitary 9. Lloydia. 



Perianth yellow. Flowers in a corymb-like ra- 

 ceme 10. Gagea. 



Perianth- segments converging into a bell-shape. 

 Segments chequered, the inner ones with a cavity 



near the base 7. Fritillaria. 



Segments not chequered, without any cavities . 8. Tulipa. 

 Stem leafless. Leaves all radical, sometimes sheathing the 

 stem. 



Rootstock creeping. Fruit a berry 3. CONVALLARIA. 



Rootstock bulbous. Fruit a capsule. 

 Flowers radical, with a very long tube commencing under- 

 ground 18. COLCHICUM. 



Flowers in a terminal umbel or head 14. Allium. 



Flowers in a terminal raceme. 

 Perianth of 1 piece, with 6 minute teeth .... 13. Muscari. 

 Perianth of 6 segments. 

 Flowers blue or pink. (Filaments flattened or not) . 12. Scilla. 

 Flowers white or greenish. Filaments flattened . . 11. Ornithogalum. 

 Flowers yellow. Filaments not flattened . . .10. Gagea. 



The above Genera belong to the following Suborders : — 



1. Trillidejg. Fruit a berry. Leaves with netted veins. Styles free. Genus: 

 — 1. PARIS. 



2. Convallarie.e. Fruit a berry. Leaves with parallel veins. Styles united. 

 Testa of the seed membranous. Genera:— 2. POLTGONATUM; 3. CONVALLARIA ; 

 4. MAIANTHEMUM. 



3. Asparage^. Fruit a berry. Leaves? with netted veins. Styles united. Testa 

 of the seed hard and black. Genera :— 5. Asparagus ; 6. Ruscus. 



4. Lilies. Fruit a capsule. Styles united. Genera:— 7. Fritillaria; 8. 

 Tulipa; 9. Lloydia; 10. Gagea; 11. Ornithogalum; 12. Scilla; 13. Muscari; 

 14. Allium ; 15. Simethis ; 16. Narthecium. 



5. Colchice^j. Fruit a capsule. Styles distinct. Genera :— 17. Tofieldia ; 18. 

 Colchicum. 



Among the exotic Genera most familiar by long or general cultivation 

 may be mentioned the Hyacinth, Asphodel, Yucca, Lilium, Calochortus, 

 Erythronium or Dog-tooth Violet, Hemerocallis, Tuberose (Polyanthes), 

 Agapanthus, Funchia, &c, and some of their species, especially of 

 Lilium, occasionally appear almost wild in the neighbourhood of gar- 

 dens. The Pineapple and some showy Pourretias and Tillandsias, occa- 

 sionally seen in our hothouses, belong to the nearly allied family of 

 Bromeliacece. 



I. PARIS. HEKB-PARIS. 



Rootstock creeping. Stem simple, with a single whorl of netted- 

 veined leaves, and a single terminal flower. Perianth of 8 or rarely 10 

 narrow segments in two series. Stamens as many. Ovary with 4 or 

 rarely 5 cells, and as many distinct styles or stigmas. 



