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the ovate-lanceolate divisions 6' or more long, spreading almost from the base 

 and the tips revolute, white with a light yellow band down the middle of the 

 upper face, which is spotted all over with prominent purple spots and rough 

 with bristly projections near the base. Probably a Japanese hybrid of the pre- 

 ceding with some other : the most showy species known. 



§ 3. Flowers inclined, white, more or less funnel-form in outline ; the naked sessile 

 divisions conniving or somewhat united below into a tube, their summits 

 mare or less spreading, but hardly recurving. All cultivated, from Asia, 

 with scattered leaves. 



L. C^ndidum, Common White Lily. Cult, from Persia, &c. : with lan- 

 ceolate leaves, and few or several bell-shaped flowers, smooth inside, sometimes 

 double. 



L. Jap6nicuin, Japan White L. Cult, from Japan : 2° high, with 

 mostly only one flower, which is nodding and larger than in the foregoing, below 

 connivent into a narrower tube, and above with the divisions more widely 

 spreading. 



L. longiflorum, Long-fl. White L., of Japan : 1° high, with lanceo- 

 late leaves, and a single horizontal funnel-form flower, 5' or 6' long, the narrow 

 tubular portion longer than the rather widely spreading portion. 



22. FRITILLARIA. (Latin fritillus, a dice-box, from the shape of the 

 flower, which differs from a Lily in its more cup-shaped outline, the divisions 

 not spreading.) Fl. spring. 



P. Meleclgris, Guinea-Hen Floaver. Cult, from Eu. : 1° high, with 

 linear alternate leaves, mostly solitary terminal flower purplish, tessellated with 

 blue and purple or whitish ; the honey-bearing spot narrow. 



P. imperious, or PExf lium imperiale. Crown Imperial. Cult, from 

 Asia: a stately herb of early spring, 3° -4° high, rather thickly beset along 

 the middle with lanceolate or lance-oblong bright green leaves more or less in 

 whorls ; flowers several hanging in a sort of umbel under the terminal crown 

 or tuft of leaves, large, orange yellow, or sometimes almost crimson, a round 

 pearly gland on the base of each division ; pod 6-angled. 



23. TITLIPA, TULIP. (Name and the common species said to come 

 from Persia.) Fl. spring and early summer : all from the Old World. 



T. Gesneri^na, Common T., from Asia Minor, is the original of the 

 various ordinary hardy kinds ; leaves lance-oblong, glaucous, shorter than the 

 flower-stalk ; divisions of the flower very obtuse. 



T. suav6oleus, Sweet T. of Eu. : low ; flower sweet-scented, its divisions 

 acute, appearing very early. 



24. ERYTHRONIUM, DOG-TOOTH- VIOLET. (Name from the 

 Greek word for red, — not appropriate even for the original European species.) 

 Fl. spring. 



E. Dens-eanis, Dog-tooth- Violet of Eu. : sometimes cult. ; has broadly 

 oblong pale leaves little spotted, and a rose-purple or almost white flower in 

 earliest spring. 



E. Americknum, Yellow D. or Adder's-tongue. Moist or low 

 woods, very common E. : leaves oblong-lanceolate, mottled and dotted with 

 dark-purplish and whitish ; flower light yellow. 



E. ^Ibidum, White D. Rare in N. Y. and Penn., but common W. : 

 leaves less or not at all spotted ; flower bluish-white. 



25. ORNITHOGALUM, STAR OF BETHLEHEM. (Name in Greek 

 means bird's-milk, a current expression for some marvellous thing.) Fl. 

 early summer. 



O. umbell^tum, Common S. or Ten-o'clock, from Eu. : in old gardens 

 and escaped into some low meadows : leaves long and grass-like; flowers bright 

 white, opening in the sun, on slender stalks. 



