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CIV. LILIACEiE 
CIV. LILIACE^E 
Herbs or shrubs, usually bulbous or tuberous, sometimes having 
a creeping rootstock ; roots often thick and fleshy. Leaves 
simple, entire, except sometimes in Smilax. Flowers 2-sexual or 
1 -sexual in Smilax. Perianth inferior ; segments 6, rarely 8-12, 
in two more or less distinct series, usually all similar and petal- 
like, free or rarely partially united. Stamens 6, rarely 8-12, 
opposite the perianth-segments, affixed to their bases or hypo- 
gynous ; filaments free, anthers versatile or basifixed. Ovary free, 
3-celled or in Paris 4-5-celled ; style short or long, entire or 3-lobed 
or 3-branched ; ovules 1, 2 or many in each cell. Fruit a capsule 
or a berry ; seeds few or many. — A large Order comprising 
plants of very different appearance dispersed throughout both 
Hemispheres, but most abundant in temperate and subtropical 
regions. 
Rootstock creeping or many- branched, often tuberous and fleshy. 
Leaves alternate or in numerous whorls. 
Flowers in umbels. 
Shrubs. Flowers small, 1 -sexual . 
Herbs. Flowers 1 in. long, 2-sexual 
Flowers in axillary, drooping racemes . 
Flowers in an erect, terminal raceme .... 
Flowers solitary, axillary, very large .... 
Leaves in a single, terminal whorl. Flower solitary. 
Leaves 3. Perianth-segments all similar 
Leaves 4-9. Perianth-segments in two very dissimilar 
series ......... 
Leaves all radical, linear. Flowers in erect racemes . 
Pseudo-leaves in tufts. Flowers axillary 
1. Smilax. 
16. Disporum. 
3. Polygonatum. 
4. Smilacina . 
15. Gloriosa. 
17. Trillium. 
18. Paris. 
5. Asphodelus. 
2. Asparagus. 
Bulbous herbs ; in Allium the bulbs sometimes small and clustered. 
Stems scape-like. Leaves radical. 
Flowers in umbels or cymes. 
Flowers white, pink or purple . 
Flowers yellow ...... 
Flowers in racemes. 
Perianth lobed J of its length .... 
Perianth lobed to the base . . 
Stems leafy, often very short. 
Anthers versatile. 
Flowers 1J-6 in. long. Perianth-segments broad 
Flowers |-f in. long. Perianth-segments linear 
Anthers basifixed. 
Flowers yellow-green, chequered with dull purple 
Flowers white. Perianth-lobes spreading . 
Flowers white, tinged with red. Perianth bell-shaped 
6. Allium. 
13. Gagea. 
7. Dipcadi. 
8. Urginea. 
9. Lilium. 
14. Iphigenia. 
10. Fritillaria. 
11. Lloydia. 
12. Tulipa. 
1. SMILAX. The classical name. — Temperate and tropical 
regions of both Hemispheres. 
