GARDEN BOTANY. lxxxi 



No cup or crown within or on the perianth. 



Anthers erect, not versatile or swinging free on the filament. 



Stems leafy, branching, leaves twisted : flowers irregular. . 3. ALSTRCEMERIA. 



Stems naked, simple, scape-like, 

 From a tuber : flowers numerous in a spike, fragrant. . . 4. POLIANTHES. 

 From a coated bulb : spathe 1-leaved, 1 - few-flowered. 



The three petals notched and shorter : anthers long-pointed. 5. GALANTHUS. 

 The three petals and three sepals alike : anthers blunt 6. LEUCOIUM. 

 Anthers versatile, fixed by their middle and swinging free on the 

 long filament. 

 Leaves herbaceous and 1 - few-flowered scape from a coated bulb. 7 AMARYLLIS. 

 Leaves thick and fleshy, with hard rind : no bulb : flowers para- 

 ded or racemose, greenish 8. AGATE. 



1. Narcissus, Narcissus. Fine ornamental plants, flowering in spring, 

 or as house-plants in winter, from coated bulbs. All but the Daffodil have a 

 slender tube and a short crown or cup to the sweet-scented flower. 



N. poetiGUS, Pokt's N. Leaves nearly flat ; scape 1-flowered; crown 

 of the white Mower edged with pink, hardly at all projecting from the yellow- 

 ish throat : in double-flowered varieties the crown disappears. 



N. biflorus, Two-flowered N., or Primrose Peerless of the old 



gardeners, has two white or pale straw-colored flowers, and the crown in the 

 form of a short yellow cup. 



N. polyanthos is the parent of the choicer sorts of Polyanthus N. ; 

 flowers numerous, white, the cup also white. 



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

 flowers 2 to 5, 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. 



2. Pancratium rotatum, Man. p. 456, the bulbs brought from the South, 

 with very handsome flowers, is sometimes cultivated, and more rarely some 

 exotic species. 



3. Alstrcsmeria. Lily-like plants from South America, with leafy stems 

 often disposed to climb, twisted leaves, tuberous roots, and large, rather irregu- 

 lar, usually party-colored or spotted flowers, cultivated in conservatories. The 



commonest are, — 



A. Pelegrina. Flowers few or solitary at the end of the branches, open, 

 rose-colored or whitish, blotched with pink and spotted with purple, with some 

 yellow towards the base of the inner divisions. 



A. psittacina. Flowers umbelled, funnel-form in shape, the spatulate 

 divisions more civet and close, red, tipped with green and brown-spotted. 



4. Polianthes tuberosa, Tuberose. A choice house-plant, with linear 

 leaves and a many-flowered scape, rising from a bulbous tuber ; the flowers 

 spiked, funnel-form, white, very sweet-scented. 



5. Galanthus nivalis, Snowdrop, the earliest harbinger of spring ; its 

 bulb sending up a pair of linear leaves and a scape, bearing usually only one 



