AMARYLLIDACE^. 884 HYPOXIS. 



Gr. vagx.1), stupor; from the effects produced by the smell of some of the 

 species, which are poisonous. A well known, popular genus, whose species 

 are easily cultivated, many of them, very fragrant and beautiful. They have 

 bulbous roots, ensiform leaves, and usually yellow flowers, with a long, com- 

 pressed spathe, opening on one side, and deciduous. 



1. N. JONQUi'lla. — Scripe 1 — 3-flowered ; segments reflexed, spathu- 

 late ; cup (corona) much shorter than the segments, saucer-shaped, spreading, 

 crenate. Native of Spain. Scape a foot high, round, slender, bearing at the 

 summit a few flowers of a rich yellow, and very fragrant. May, Jn. Jonquil. 



2. N. POE'TICUS. — Scape 1-flowered ; segments imbricate at base, reflex- 

 ed; corona expanded, flat, rotate, crenulate ; 3 cnUliers shorter than the tube. 

 Native of S. Europe. Scap'» about a foot high, leaves of the same length. 

 It bears a single flower, which is mostly white, but having the crown singular- 

 ly adorned with circles of crimson, white and yellow. Jn. Poet's jXarcissu^. 



3. N. Pseudo-Narci'ssus. — Scape2-edge(], stTSilght.sin-ated; segments 

 sulphur color ; corona with a serrate-crenate orifice. Native of England. 

 Root bulbous. Ijcaves linear, a foot long, striate, ribbed. Scape a foot high, 

 bearing at the top a single, very large flower, with a very long cup or corona. 

 April. May. Daffodil. 



4. N. TAZe'tta. — Spathe many-flowered ; corona campanulate, trun- 

 cate, shorter than the petals; leaves flat. Native of Spain. Root a large 

 bulb. Leaves smooth, sword-shaped. Scape naked, striate, a foot high, 

 with 10 — 12 flowers. Corolla white, cup a strong yellow, not fragrant. 

 April. May. Pulyantkus. 



3. GALA'NTHUS. 



Flowers spathaceous; sepals 3, concave; corona formed of 

 3 small, emarginate segments ; stigma simple. 



Gr. yaXa,, milk, avSos; on account of the delicate whiteness of the flower. 

 Ornamental, bulbous exotics. 



G. NIVA'lis. — Xcffires linear, radical,' keeled, acute; scape l-flowcred. 

 Native of the Alps, well known in gardens, flowering early in Spring. It is 

 a small plant, hiilf a foot liigh, arising from a perennial bulb, bearing a single, 

 large, nodding flower white as snow. Stem usually furnished with 2 long, 

 narrow leaves towards the top. Snow-drop. 



4. HYPO'XIS. 

 Spathe 2-leavec]; perianth persistent ; capsule elongated, 

 narrowed at the base ; seeds numerous, roundish, with a black, 

 crustaceous integument. 



Gr. 'JTTiu, under, o|v«. sharp ; on account of the pointed base of the fruit. 

 Small, bulbous, grass-like plants, with yellow flowers. Lvs. radical, linear. 



H. ere'cta. 



Pilose; scipe about 4-flowercd, shorter than the linear-lanceolate leaves. 

 In woods and meadows. Leaves all radical, G — 12 inches long, 3 — 5 lines 

 wide, very acute. The slender, hairy scapes, several from the same root, 

 arise G — 9 inches, divided at top into a sort of umbel with 3 — 5 pi-duncles 

 having each a minute, subulate s[ athe at ih^ ba;e. Perianth hairy and greenish 

 without, yellow within J segmeals ova!, lather obtuse. Jn. Ydluw Stir-grass. 



