512 AMARYLLIDACE^E. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



3. G. parvifldrum, Salisb. (Smaller Yellow L.) Sepals ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate; lip flattish from above, bright yellow (I' or less long) : sterile sta- 

 men triangular ; leaves oval, pointed. — Bogs and low woods ; rather common. 

 May, June. — Stem l°-2° high. Flower fragrant: sepals and petals more 

 brown-purple than in the next, into which, however, it seems to pass. 



4. C. pub6scens, Willd. (Larger Yellow L.) Sepals elongated-lanceo- 

 late; lip flattened laterally, very convex and gibbous above ( 1^' — 2' long, scent- 

 less, pale yellow. — Bogs and low woods : common northward and westward, 

 and southward in the Alleghanies. May, June. — Stem 2° high, pubescent, as 

 are the broadly oval acute leaves. 



>*- +- Sepals and petals plane, rounded, white, not longer than the lip. 



5. C. spectabile, Swartz. (Showy L.) Sepals round-ovate or orbicu- 

 lar, rather longer than the oblong petals ; lip much inflated, white, pink purple in 

 front (l£' long) ; sterile stamen heart-ovate. — Beat- bogs, Maine and W. New 

 England to Illinois, and southward along the Alleghanies. July. — The most 

 beautiful of the genus, downy, 2° high. Leaves ovate, p<. 'nted. 



* * Scape naked, 2-leavtd at the base, l-floioered ; sepals and petals greenish, shorter 

 than the drooping lip, which has a closed fissure down its whole length in front. 



6. C. acaule, Ait. (Stkmless L.) Sepals oblong-lanceolate, pointed, 

 nearly as long as the linear petals; lip obovoid or oblong, rose-purple (rarely 

 white), nearly 2' long, veiny; sterile stamen rhomboid; leaves oblong. (C. 

 humile, Salisb.) — Dry or moist woods, under evergreens : common, especially 

 northward. May, June. — Blant downy : the scape 8'- 12' high, with a green 

 bract at the top. 



Order 115. AMARYE.L.IDACE^E. (Amaryllis Family.) 



Chiefly bulbous and scape-bearing herbs, not scurfy or woolly, with linear- 

 flat root-leaves, and regular {or nearly so) and perfect 6-androus flowers, 

 the tube of the corolline ^-parted perianth coherent with the 3-celled ovary ; the 

 lobes imbricated in the bud. — Anthers introrse. Style single. Pod 3-celled, 

 several - many-seeded. Seeds anatropous or nearly so, with a straight 

 embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. — An order represented in our gar- 

 dens by the Narcissus (N. poeticus), Jonquil (N. Jonquilla), and Daf- 

 fodil (N. Pseudo-Narcissus), the Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) 

 and the Snowflake (Lkucojum vernum), &c\, but with very few indige- 

 nous representatives in this country. Bulbs acrid. Differs from Liliacege 

 chiefly in the inferior ovary. 



# Pod 3-valved, loculicidal : anthers versatile : perianth funnel-shaped. 

 Z. Amaryllis. Flower naked in the throat ; the tube short or none. Bulbs coated. 

 % Pancratium. Flower with a slender tube and narrow recurved lobes: a cUp-shaped 



crown connecting the stamens. Bulbs coated. 

 b. Agave. Flower equally 6-cleft, persistent , no crown. Fleshy-leaved, not bulboua. 



* # Pod iudehiscent ; anthers sagittate. 

 4. Hypoxys. Perianth 6-parted nearly down to the ovary. Bulb solid. 



