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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. XIV, No. 7, 
Amaryllidacf.ae. Amaryllis Family. 
Geophilous, perennial herbs with bulbs or rhizomes and 
scapose or aerial stems, or some tropical species trees. Leaves 
sword-shaped sometimes fleshy. Flowers bisporangiate, epigy- 
nous, pentacyclic, actinomorphoric, trimerous; ovulary trilocular; 
fruit usually a capsule. 
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Key. 
Inflorescence a spike or raceme; plants glabrous. Manfreda. 
Inflorescence umbellate or flowers solitary. 2. 
Perianth tubular with a crown; plants glabrous, cultivated. 
Narcissus. 
Perianth spreading, star-shaped, without a crown; plants villous. 
Hypoxsis. 
Manfreda Salisb. 
Fleshy herbs with bulbiferous rootstalks and bracted scapes, 
the leaves basal and the flowers in terminal spikes or racemes. 
Perianth tubular or funnelform withering persistent; sepals and 
petals of nearly equal length, united below into a tube. Stamens 
inserted on the perianth, exserted, filaments flattened. Ovulary 
trilocular, style slender, exserted; ovules numerous; capsule ovoid. 
1. Manfreda virginica (L.) Salisb. False Aloe. Perennial 
geophilous herbs to 2 feet high; leaves sword-shaped, flesh}’, 
with smooth or denticulate edges. Flowers borne in a loose spike 
on a scape 2 to 6 feet tall, greenish-yellow in color, solitary in the 
axils of bracts. Perianth nearly tubular, § to 1 inch long. Cap¬ 
sule \ to f inch diameter, slightly longer than thick. Lawrence 
county. 
Narcissus L. 
Bulbous herbs with leafless scapes and linear, basal leaves. 
Flowers solitary or several substended by a deciduous spathe; 
Perianth 6-parted bearing a cup-like crown in the throat. Sta¬ 
mens united with perianth tube. Ovulary trilocular, capsule 
thin-walled. 
1. Narcissus pseudo-narcissus. L. Daffodil. Scape about 
1 foot high; leaves linear; flowers bright yellow 2 to 3 inches broad, 
crown serrate. Cultivated. 
Hypoxis. L. 
Perennial, villous herbs with short rootstocks and grass-like 
leaves. Flowers borne on slender scapes, regular; stamens united 
with the bases of the perianth segments. Ovulary trilocular; 
capsule oblong, not dehiscent by valves. 
1. Hypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville. Yellow Stargrass. Leaves 
linear 5 to 12 inches long, | to J inch wide. Flowers 1 to 6 
umbellate, bright yellow within, greenish without, plant villous. 
General. 
