. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. 106 Ordbr 148.~LILIACE^E. â tem, consisting of 6 to 8 wedge-lanceolato Ivs. (3 to 4' by 9 to 12''); the other at the top, of about 3 ovate, shorter loa'^ea. Fla. in the upper whorl, 1, 2 or 3, pen- dulous, with greenish, revoluto segments. The Btigmas are very long, reflexed, dark red. Jl. Order CXLVIII. LILIACEiE. Lilyworts. Eerbs with bulbous or tuberous stems, p


. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. 106 Ordbr 148.~LILIACE^E. â tem, consisting of 6 to 8 wedge-lanceolato Ivs. (3 to 4' by 9 to 12''); the other at the top, of about 3 ovate, shorter loa'^ea. Fla. in the upper whorl, 1, 2 or 3, pen- dulous, with greenish, revoluto segments. The Btigmas are very long, reflexed, dark red. Jl. Order CXLVIII. LILIACEiE. Lilyworts. Eerbs with bulbous or tuberous stems, parallel- veined, sessile leaves, flowers perfect, regular, generally largo and richly colored, perianth 6 (rarely 4)-partod, uniformly colored, free from the ovary, stamens G (rarely 4), perigynous; anthers introrse (extrorso in Uvularia), styles wholly or partly united, ovary superior, 2 or 3-celled. FruU a capsule, loculicidal, or a pulpy berry. Seeds few or many, witii fleshy albumen. Illustr. in figs. 58, 60, G3, 103, 171, 254, 259, 400, 454. Genera 147, aneciea 1200, chiefly nntivos of tcmpernta reeioiis. T!in flowers of most .I'ro buauliful, of innny brilliant, and uf :!umo truly spK-ntlid. Propertiea â^Tho order abounds in a bitter, stimnlnnt principle nnd also in iiiuullicc. Some of the bulhoiis BnecU'9 yield a nutritio\i3 diet, as the Anparuyiis, Onion, OarHc. The well Isnown active tnedicine, squiUit, is tlio bulb of Stiilla iuaritiina,of S. Europe. The various kinds of oflicinal aloei*, are the iiroduct of several species of Aloe. The powerfiil astringent. Dragon's liloofi, in h» concentrated jnico of Draeajna Draco of the Canary Isln?. (Tlio Tribe Cviilariie is intermediate between Liliauote nnd MelanthaceiB, approaching the latter by its mostly cxtroso nntherii, but liest according with the former in it* united styles, fruit, and in habit.). FIG. ri6. Bmllacina boroidls. showing the 2 cellsi, &c. C. A berry cut open,. Please note that these images are extr


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