ANALYTICAL DRAWINGS OF LILIACEiE — continued. 
The second row of figures represents Colchicum , the so-called Meadow Saffron 
or Autumn Crocus. The first figure is a reduced picture of a flower in section. 
The ovary, although at the bottom of the long perianth-tube and entirely under- 
ground, is superior. Whilst the flower appears in autumn, the fruit is carried up 
above ground, by the elongation of the stem below it, together with the leaves, in 
the following spring, as seen, also reduced in size, in the second figure. The third 
and fourth represent one of the extrorse stamens, the latter being a side view. The 
fifth figure is an unripe fruit ; and the sixth is a transverse section showing its 
three chambers. 
The Tribe Allioidece , chiefly represented by the genus Allium , analysed in the 
third row of figures, is mainly characterised by its cymosely umbellate inflorescence 
enclosed in a double spathe. Here the first figure is a flower ; the second, a perianth- 
leaf with its superposed stamen ; the third, the gynaeceum, or ovary, style, and 
stigma ; and the fourth, a cross section of the same. 
The Tribe LUioide# , represented by Fritillaria and Scilla , has bulbs with terminal 
racemose inflorescences and introrse anthers. In the fourth row, the first figure is 
one of the chequered perianth-leaves of Fritillaria ; the second figure represents its 
essential organs ; the third, the ovary ; the fourth, a longitudinal section of it ; and 
the fifth, a transverse one. The sixth shows the loculicidal dehiscence of the ripe 
capsule ; and the seventh, the winged seed. 
In the fifth row, the first figure is a flower of Scilla non-scripta ; the second, the 
same as seen from above ; the third, two perianth-leaves and stamens, showing the 
two different lengths of the latter ; the fourth, the gynaeceum ; the fifth, the same 
enlarged ; the sixth, an enlargement of the stigma, showing the pollen in situ ; the 
seventh and ninth, transverse sections of the -ovary at two stages ; the eighth, a 
longitudinal one ; and the tenth, a ripe capsule. 
The Tribe Asparagoide represented here by Ruscus, Convallaria , and Paris , 
has a rhizome and a baccate fruit. 
The sixth row of figures deals only with the female flower of Ruscus. The 
first figure is a cladode or leaf-like branch bearing a flower ; the second shows the 
same later ; the third, a young fruit ; the fourth, the ovary enclosed in the tube of 
united filaments ; the fifth, a longitudinal, and the sixth, a transverse, section ; the 
seventh and eighth, a ripe fruit, the latter from below ; and the ninth, the same in 
section. 
The Lily-of-the-valley is represented by the penultimate row of figures, showing 
a flower, a longitudinal section through it, a stamen, the gynaeceum, and a transverse 
section. 
Lastly, Herb Paris is represented by a flower, one of its remarkable stamens 
with its long tapering connective, the gynaeceum, the ripe fruit, and longitudinal and 
transverse sections through it. 
