herbaceous plants. 



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purplish sepals and rosy-purple lip. C. spectaMe, fully two 



feet hi«h, leafy, leaves oblong, downy: flowers white with 

 a rosy-tinted lip. C. pubescens, a foot high or more, leafy: 

 flowers yellow : leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate. All do 

 best in rather moist ground in half -shady positions. Very 

 showv when seen in masses. 



THE AMARYLLIS FAMILY. 



' Star-Grass, Hypoxis en:<-ta. — A modest little plant of 

 grassy fields, especially on the outskirts of woods. Leaves 

 lorn; and narrow : flowers yellow, half an inch across, sev- 

 eral on a slender scape six inches high, more or les-. For 

 naturalizing on lawns. Very desirable. 



Daffodils, Narcissi, Narcissus. — Some of the most at- 

 tractive spring- and summer-flowering bulbs belong to this 

 melius. All are white or yellow with 

 linear leaves and simple scapes bearing 

 one or more flowers. The daffodils 

 proper have a large crown in addition 

 to the six >eirments of the perianth, as 

 loii"- as, or even longer than these. In 

 the Bulbocodium section the crown is 

 much larger and more conspicuous than 

 the narrow segments of the perianth. 

 while in true nm-<issi the crown is very 

 small as compared to the segment-. 



... " , , FIQ. 160.-PEERLESS NARCIS- 



Daftodds are exceedingly beautiful sub- sus (narcissus incom- 



. . . ' i-i PARABILISL 



jects for naturalizing in grassy thickets 



and shrubberies or in moist ground along stream- and 



lakes. Once established they spread rapidly and need uo 





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