ASPHodel-Lily: A genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the hexandria clas of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 9th order, Spatheae. The corolla is funnel-shaped, monopetalous, and sexpartite, with three alternate segments having hooked appendages; the germen is covered in the bottom of the corolla, the stamina standing afund. They are very beautiful greenhouse plants, rising two or three feet high, each of them crowned by a large umbellate cluter of spatheaceous, monopetalous, long funnel-shaped flowers, blue, white, or striped, having a very fragrant smell. They are propagated by off-lets.