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preserve the whole as one large family, divided into several suborders, 

 of which the five enumerated below are represented in Britain. 



Stem leafy. 



Stem branching. Fruit a berry. 



Leaves short, subulate, and clustered. Flowers 



axillary 5. Asparagus. 



Leaves ovate, stiff, and prickly. Flowers on the 



back of the leaves 6. Buscus. 



Stem simple. 

 Fruit a terry. 



Leaves net-veined, in a single whorl of 4 or 



rarely 5 1. Paris. 



Leaves parallel-veined, alternate or radical. 



Flowers axillary 2. Solomon-seal. 



Flowers in a terminal raceme. 



Perianth bell-shaped. Leaves radical . . 3. Convallaria. 

 Perianth spreading, divided to the base. 



Leaves alternate 4. Smilacina. 



Fruit a capsule. 



Eootstock 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. Toeieldia. 



Stigmas 3, sessile, feathery Triglochin (p. 799) . 



Eootstock bulbous. 



Flowers in a terminal umbel or head . . . 18. Allium. 

 Flowers solitary, or in a terminal raceme. 

 Perianth -segments spreading. 



Perianth white, with pink stripes. 



Flowers usually solitary .... 9. Lloyd ia. 

 Perianth yellow. Flowers in a corymb- 



like raceme 10. GUgea. 



Perianth-segments converging into a bell- 



Segments chequered, the inner ones 



with a cavity near the base ... 7. Fritillary. 

 Segments not chequered, without any 



cavities 8. Tulip. 



Stem leafless. Leaves all radical, sometimes sheathing 

 the stem. 



Eootstock creeping. Fruit a berry 3. Convallaria. 



Kootstock bulbous. Fruit a capsule. 



Flowers radical, with a very long tube com- 

 mencing underground 18. Colchicum. 



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

 Flowers in a terminal raceme. 



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