AMARYLLIS FAMILY 47 



Atamasco Lily. Fairy Lily. Easter Lily (Genus 



Atamosco) 



In favored localities in low pinelands these flowers 

 spring up by scores in late winter and spring, when the 

 dull and unpromising appearing earth suddenly gives 

 birth to beauty in the ever new miracle of life. 



Each bulb sends up a few narrow leaves, and a leafless 

 flowering-stalk tipped with a solitary, upright, lilylike 

 flower that is several times longer than the bulb from 

 which it came. A common belief in the country is that 

 these "Easter lilies," as they are locally called, spring up 

 only where the ground has been burned over: a belief that 

 may be due to the fact that the flowers are more con- 

 spicuous against blackened earth than they are among 

 dried grasses. 



Bulbs of this genus are often cultivated : fairy lilies they 

 are called, and zephyranthes — favorites of 2iephyrus, the 

 west wind. 



Atamosco Atamasco (Zephyranthes).. Flowers white or 

 tinged with purple, 2-3 in. long, funnel-form, 6-parted, soli- 

 tary on stalk 6-15 in. tall. Leaves basal, narrow, glossy, 

 about as long as stalk. Low grounds. Blooming in late 

 winter and spring. Fla. to Ala. and Pa. 



Atamosco Treatiae. Flowers white, tinged outside with 

 pink, about 3 in. long. Leaves very narrow, thick, not glossy. 

 Low pinelands. Fla. 



Atamosco Simpsonii. Flowers pale pink, about 2 in. long. 

 Leaves 10-18 in. long; much longer than stalk. Low pine- 

 lands. Fla. 



Wild Crinum. Swamp Lily (Genus Crinum) 



This beautiful white crinum of river swamps blooms in 

 spring and summer, but belated flowers are found even in 

 midwinter in the southern part of the state. "Lilies" the 

 flowers are commonly called, as they are lilylike in ap- 



