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over half its length: leaves broadly lanceolate, flat with 

 numerous linear, blackish snots. This is a fine plant for a 

 sunny position in a rockery. 



Dog's-tooth Violet, Erythronium dens-canis — Woodland 

 plants with simple scapes from four to six inches high 

 bearing solitary nodding flowers, white or rosy-red; leaves 

 oblong, pale green, blotched with brown-purple. E. Anu ri- 

 ot mi in has pale yellow flowers. E. grandiflorum is a large- 

 flowered species having one or more flowers to a scape, and 

 E. aHridum is a very pretty plant with white flowers. All 

 are fine subjects for naturalizing in scattered masses in woods. 

 copses, and shrubberies. 



Star of Eethlehem, Omitkogalum umbettatum. — Flowers 

 white, gi-eenish on the outside, large star-like, disposed in 

 mauv-flowered umbels: leaves weak. Lira-^-like. A summer- 

 flowering plant : may be naturalized in sandy lawns or 

 planted in a rockery. Yellow star of Bethlehem (Gagea 

 luted) is a dwarf bulbous plant with bright yellow blossoms 

 flowering in early spring: it is fine for naturalizing in 

 shrubberies. 



Golden Garlic, Allium M<>lij.— A showy, summer-flow- 

 erimr plant with broad, lanceolate, tufted leave-, and 

 masses of bright yellow flowers disposed in crowded umbels. 

 Height about a foot. Naturalized on the borders of 

 shrubberies or on grassy banks. 



Asphodel, Asphoddus dibits. — A beautiful riverside or 

 shore plant of Southern Europe, growing a foot high with 

 linear, keeled leaves in large crowded tufts, and naked steins 

 bearing a spike-like raceme of white flowers. A. ViUarsii 

 is a dwarfer, equally desirable kind. Both are fine for 



