844 THE LILY FAMILY. 



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

 Perianth of 6 segments. 



Flowers blue or pink. (Filaments flat- 

 tened or not) 12. Squill. 



Flowers white or greenish. Filaments 



flattened 11. Ornitiiooalum". 



Flowers yellow. Filaments not flattened 10. Gagea. 

 The above Genera belong to the following Suborders : — 



1. Trillideje. Fruit a berry. Leaves with netted veins. Styles free. 

 Genus : — 1. Paris. 



2. ConvallariEtE. Fruit a berry. Leaves with parallel veins. Styles 

 united. Testa of the seed, membranous. Genera : — 2. Solomok-seal ; 3. 

 Convallaria ; 4. Smilacina. 



3. Asparaqeje. Fruit a berry. Leaves with parallel veins. Styles united. 

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



4. Lilies. Fruit a capsule. Styles united. Genera : — 7. Fritillary. 

 8. Tulip ; 9. Lloydia ; 10. Gagea ; 11. Ornithogalum; 12. Squill ; 13. 

 Muscari ; 14. Allium : 15. Simethis ; 16. JNarthecium. 



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

 18. Colchicum. 



Among the exotic Genera most familiar by long or general cultiva- 

 tion may be mentioned the Hyacinth, Asphodel, Yucca, Lily, Calo- 

 chortus,Erythronium, Hemerocallis, Tuberose (Polyan t\\\\$),Agapanthus, 

 Funchia, etc., and some of their species, especially of Lily, occasionally 

 appear almost wild in the neighbourhood of gardens. The Pineapple 

 and some showy JPourretias and Tillandsias, occasionally seen in our 

 hothouses, belong to the nearly allied family of Bromeliacece. 



I. PARIS. PARIS. 



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

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

 narrow segments. Stamens as many. Ovary with 4 or rarely 5 cells, 

 and as many distinct styles or stigmas. 



A genus containing, besides the European species, only two or three 

 Asiatic ones. 



1. Common Paris. Paris quadrifolia, Linn. (Fig. 1015.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 7. Herb-Paris) 



Stem 9 inches to a foot high, with a whorl of 4 broadly-ovate or 

 obovate leaves, 2 to 3 or 4 inches long. Peduncle rising to 1 or 2 inches 

 above the leaves. Perianth of a yellowish-green colour ; the 4 outer 

 segments narrow-lanceolate, about an inch long ; the 4 inner ones 

 linear and rather more yellow. Anthers linear, on slender filaments. 



