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FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 



yellow flowers. In our gardens the fall crocus {Colchlrinii) is well 

 known for its peculiar habit of blooming without leaves in the fall. 

 The bog asphodel (Abanta Americana) is a not uncommon plant in the 

 New Jersey pine barrens. 



Fig. 42.— Croomia. 



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Family Liliaceae. Lily Family. This group contains considera- 

 bly over 100 genera and about 1300 species. The plants are chiefly 

 herbs, growing from bulbs or corms, with leaves varying greatly in 

 size and shape. The flowers are distinguished by having a conspicuous 

 colored perianth, the divisions of which are either quite free from 

 each other, as in the lily or tulip, or united 'below into a tube, as in 

 hyacinth. The ovary is almost invariably free, that is, not coherent 



