Iberbaceous plants. 



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

 feet high, leafy ; leaves oblong, downy ; flowers white with 

 a rosy-tinted lip. C. pubesctns, 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 

 showy when seen in masses. 



THE AMAKYLLIS FAMILY. 



Star-Grass, Hypoxis erecta. A modest little plant of 

 grassy fields, especially on the outskirts of woods. Leaves 

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

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

 naturalizing on lawns. Very desirable. 



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

 tractive spring- and summer-flowering bulbs belong to this 

 genus. 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 segments of the perianth, as 

 long as, or even longer than these. In 

 the JBulbocodium section the crown is 

 much larger and more conspicuous than 

 the narrow segments of the perianth, 

 while in true narcissi the crown is very 

 small as compared to the segments. 



-p. & -,.-, J' 1 T_ J.-J! 1 1 FIQ. 160. PEERLESS NARCIS- 



Dailodils are exceedingly beautiful sub- sus (NARCISSUS INCOM- 



-,. . . ,1 i PARABILIS). 



jects tor naturalizing in grassy thickets 



and shrubberies or in moist ground along streams and 



lakes. Once established they spread rapidly and need no 



