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POPULAR FLORA. 
Fruit a few-seeded berry : flowers small. Herbs from rootstocks : no bulbs. 
Stems much branched : leaves fine and thread-shaped, in clusters, ( Asparagus ) * Asparagus 
Stems simple above ground and leafy. Leaves oblong or lance-oblong. 
Flowers axillary, nodding, greenish ; perianth tubular, 6-lobed : stamens above 
the middle, on very short filaments. Rootstock thick, marked with 
broad round scars on the upper side (Fig. 63), ( Polygonatum ) Solomon -6-Seal. 
Flowers in a terminal raceme, white : perianth 6-parted, in one case 4-parted, 
the divisions narrow and widely spreading, the stamens on its base : 
filaments slender, ( Smilae'ma ) Smilacina. 
Stems or scape simple and leafless above ground; the broad leaves all from its base 
or from the slender rootstock. 
Tlowers small, in a slender raceme, white; perianth bell-shaped, 6-lobed (Fig. 3): 
leaves very smooth, ( Convallaria) *Lily-of-tiie-V alley. 
Flowers rather large, in an umbel, greenish-yellow or whitish : perianth 6-leaved : 
leaves of the plant ciliate, ( Clintonia) Clintonia. 
Fruit a 3-celled pod, splitting into 3 valves when ripe. 
Perianth wheel-shaped, or sometimes erect or bell-shaped, 6-leaved: flowers on a 
scape or nearly naked stem, rising from a coated bulb : seeds round 
and black, few. 
Flowers in a corymb, white: style 3-sided, ( Omitliogalum) ^Stak-of-Bethlehem. 
Flowers in a raceme, blue or purple : style thread-like, ( Scilla) Squill. 
Flowers in an umbel from a scaly bract or involucre, ( Allium ) Onion. 
Perianth funnel-shaped, bell-shaped, or globe-shaped, more or less united into a tube 
or cup, bearing the 6 stamens, except in some Day-Lilies. 
Scape and leaves from a coated bulb : flowers in a raceme. Leaves narrow. 
Perianth globular, blue, small, (Muscari) * Grape-Hyacinth. 
Perianth short, funnel-shaped or bell-shaped, 6-cleft, ( Hyacinthus ) ^Hyacinth. 
Scape or stem leafy towards the bottom, from fibrous roots (no bulb), bearing a 
few large flowers in a cluster at the top : stamens curved to one side. 
Flower opening for only one day, ( Hemerocdllis ) ^Day-Lily 
Perianth bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, &c., but of 6 separate petal-like divisions: 
seeds many, mostly flat, pale. 
Simple-stemmed herbs from a scaly or coated bulb : stamens on the receptacle 
or attached to the very base of the deciduous perianth. 
Anthers fixed by their middle and swinging free : stems leafy to the top. 
No honey-bearing spots, or merely a groove at the bottom of each divis- 
ion of the perianth. Bulb scaly, ( Lilium ) Lily. 
A round and large honey-bearing spot near the bottom of each division 
of the perianth, ( Petilium ) * Crown-Imperial. 
Anthers erect on the filament, appearing to be fixed by their base : stem or 
scape leafy only at or towards the bottom. 
Style none or hardly any: stigmas 3 on the long 3-sided ovary, ( Tulipa ) ^ Tulip 
Style long: ovary roundish : leaves 2, spotted, ( Erythronium ) Dogtooth-Violet. 
Stems woody, palm-like, or not rising above the ground, from roots or rootstocks 
(no bulbs): leaves evergreen, sword-shaped. Flowers white, tulip- 
shaped, in a large, terminal, compound panicle, ( Yucca) Yucca 
