35° FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



strikingly handsome lily is 3 or 4 inches long, of a fine rich 

 color, and with its whorls of leaves makes solid pretensions to 

 elegance. Stem, 2 or 3 feet high. 



Range from Maine to South Carolina and West Virginia. 



99. Fly-poison 



Chrosperma muscaetdxicum. — Family, Bunch - flower. 

 Color, white. Leaves, from base of scape, linear, grass-like, a 

 few on the stem reduced to mere bracts. Perianth, 6-divided. 

 Flotaers, pedicelled, in a simple, dense raceme. Sfat/iens, with 

 thread-like filaments about as long as the sepals. Fruit, a 3- 

 horned capsule. Stem, 2 to 4 feet high, from a coated bulb. 



Range from Long Island westward to Pennsylvania and Vir- 

 ginia, where it is found among the mountains, and Arkansas. 



