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N. Tazdtta, Polyanthus N. Leaves as of the preceding linear and 

 nearly flat, glaucous ; flowers numerous in an umbel, yellow or sometimes 

 white, with the crown a golden or orange-colored cup one third or almost one 

 half the length of the divisions. 



N. Jonquilla, Jonquil. Leaves narrow, rush-like or half-cylindrical ; 

 flowers 2 to 5, small, yellow, as also the short cup, very fragrant. 



N. Pseudo-Narcissus, Daffodil. Leaves flat, and 1-flowered scape 

 short ; flower large, yellow, with a short and broad tube, and a large bell-shaped 

 cup, having a wavy-toothed or crisped margin, equalling or longer than the 

 divisions : common double-flowered in country gardens. 



3. PAliTCRATITJM. (Name in Greek means all powerful: no obvious 

 reason for it.) Flowers large, showy, fragrant, especially at evening in 

 summer. Cult, at the North ; the following wild S. in wet places on and 

 near the coast. 



P. maritimum. Glaucous ; leaves linear, erect ; scape barely flattish ; 

 perianth 5' long, its green tube enlarging at summit into the funnel-shaped 

 12-toothed cup, to the lower part of which the spreading narrow-lanceolate 

 divisions of the perianth are united. 



P. rot^tum (or p. MexicXnum). Leaves linear-strap-shaped, widely 

 spreading, bright green, 2' or more wide ; scape sharply 2-edged ; slender tube 

 of the perianth and its linear widely spreading divisions each about 3' long, the 

 latter wholly free from the short and broadly open wavy-edged cup. 



4. CRINUM. (The Greek name for a Lily.) Showy conservatory plants, 

 chiefly from tropical regions ; one wild S. 



C. am^bile, from East Indies ; the huge bulb rising into a column ; leaves 

 becoming several feet long and 3' -5' wide; flowers numerous, 8' -10' long, 

 crimson-purple outside, paler or white within. 



C. Americ^num, wild in rfver swamps far S. ; much smaller, with a 

 globular bulb ; scape l°-2° high; flower white, 6' -7' long. 



5. AMARYLLIS. (Dedicated to the nymph of this name.) One wild 

 species S. ; many in choice cultivation, and the species mixed. The following 

 are the commonest types. 



A. Atamasco, Atamasco Lilt, wild from "Virginia S. in low grounds ; 

 scape 6'- 12' high, mostly shorter than the glossy leaves; flower 2'-3'long, 

 single from a 2-cleft spathe, regular, funnel-form, white and pinkish ; stamens 

 and style declined. 



A. formosissima, Jacobean or St. James's Lilt, of the section 

 SpREKiiLiA: cult, from South America : scape bearing a single large and de- 

 clined deep crimson-red flower, with hardly any tube, and 2-ly)ped as it were, 

 three divisions recurved-spreading upwards, three turned downwards, these at 

 base involute around the lower part of the deflexed stamens and style. 



A. Reginse, from South America ; with 2-4 large almost regular nodding 

 flowers, crimson-red, with hardly any tube, and the deflexed stamens curved 

 upwards at the end. 



A. Bellad6nna, from the Cape of Good Hope ; has elongated bulbs, chan- 

 nelled narrow leaves shorter than the solid scape, and several almost regular 

 large rose-red fragrant flowers, funnel-form with very short tube, the stamens 

 not much declined. 



A. speci6sa, or Vall6ta PURPtiREA, from Cape of Good Hope ; the scar- 

 let-red flowers with funnel-shaped tube rather longer than the broad ovate and 

 nearly equal spreading divisions. 



6. GALANTHUS, Snowdrop. (Name formed of the Greek words for 

 milk andjiower, probably from the color.) Fl. earliest spring, 



G. nivalis, of Europe, sends up soon after the winter's snow leaves the 

 ground a ])air of linear pale leaves and a scape 3' -6' high, bearing its delicate 

 drooping white flower, the inner divisions tipped with green : a variety is full 

 double. 



