190 127. Tamils* 18. TAMACEJE. 
PI. end. ph . 
Tamus communis. Common black-briony . 
Leaves cordate, acute, undivided, not notched. 
Tamus racemosa, flore minore luteo pallescente, J Ran Si/n. 262, 1. 
Bryonia nigra, Gcr. cm. 871. 
Bryonia sylvestris nig-ra, Park. 178. 
Tamus communis, Lin. S. P. 1458. 
Wild vine. Our lady’s seal . 
Woods and hedges; perennial; June and July. 
Root black, very large;, stem branchy, round, 12 feet 
long, smooth ; leaves smooth, deep green, varying greatly 
in shape from reniform to sagittate ; flowers greenish; berries 
red. — Root acrid, stimulant, discutient used externally. 
Fam. XIV. 19. AMARYLLIDEAE. Brown. 
Perigonium adherent, 6-cut, regular, imbricate before open- 
ing; 3 outer sepales longer than the inner; stamens 6, inserted 
in the base of the sepales or in the tube ; filaments some- 
times connate at the base ; anthers adverse ; ovary adherent, 
3-celled; cells many-seeded; style 1 ; stigma 3-lobed; capsule 
3-celled; valves 3, partition-bearing; seeds many, affixed 
to the inner angles of the cells ; perisperm fleshy ; corculum 
inclosed ; spermodermis simple, membranaceous, neither 
crustaceous nor black. 
A. Perigonium topshape ; limb 6-cut ; crown cupshape . 
Crown shorter than the limb ; 
stamens unequal, 3 shorter Narcissus. 128. 
Crown as long as the limb ; 
stamens equal in length Ajax. 129* 
B. Perigonium very short tubed j limb 6-paried ; crown 0. 
Lobes of the perigonium equal Galanthus. 131. 
Lobes of the perigonium unequal .... Leucojum. 130. 
I. 128. NARCISSUS. Narcissus . 
Perigonium funnelshape ; limb spreading, longer than the 
crown, 6-cut ; crown at the mouth of the tube cupshape ; 
thick; tube Cylindrical; stamens 6; 3 filaments shorter than 
the rest, adhering to the tube ; anthers short, thick, boat- 
shape, upright, nestling in the mouth of the tube ; stigma 
small. — Herb bulbose; bulb tunicated; leaves concave, semi- 
cylindrical, upright ; scape 2-edged, compressed ; spa the 1 
or 2-flowered; tube of the flower white, thick; crown yel- 
low, edge red. 
