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N. Tazdtta, 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 

 halt' the length of the divisions. 



N. Jonquilla, JONQUIL. Leaves narrow, rush-like or half-cylindrical ; 

 flowers 2 to 5, small, 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. 



3. PANCRATIUM. (Name in Greek means all powerful: no obvious 

 reason for it.) Flowers large, showy, fragrant, especially at evening in 

 summer. Cult, at the North ; the following wild S. in wet places on and 

 near the coast. 



P. maritimum. Glaucous ; leaves linear, erect ; scape barely flattish ; 

 perianth 5' long, its green tube enlarging at summit into the funnel-shaped 

 12-toothed cup, to the lower part of which the spreading narrow-lanceolate 

 divisions of the perianth are united. 



P. rotatum (or P. MEXICANUM). Leaves linear-strap-shaped, widely 

 spreading, bright green, 2' or more wide ; scape sharply 2-edged ; slender tube 

 of the perianth and its linear widely spreading divisions each about 3' long, the 

 latter wholly free from the short and broadly open wavy-edged cup. 



4. CRINUM. (The Greek name for a Lily.) Showy conservatory plants, 

 chiefly from tropical regions ; one wild S. 



C. amabile, from East Indies ; the huge bulb rising into a column ; leaves 

 becoming several feet long and 3' -5' wide; flowers numerous, 8' -10' long, 

 crimson-purple outside, paler or white within. 



C. Americanum, wild in river swamps far S. ; much smaller, with a 

 globular bulb; scape l-2 high; flower white, 6' -7' long. 



5. AMARYLLIS. (Dedicated to the nymph of this name.) One wild 

 species S. ; many in choice cultivation, and the species mixed. The following 

 are the commonest types. 



A. Atamasco, ATAMASCO LILT, wild from Virginia S. in low grounds ; 

 scape 6' -12' high, mostly shorter than the glossy leaves; flower 2' -3' long, 

 single from a 2-cleft spathe, regular, funnel-form, white and pinkish ; stamens 

 and style declined. 



A. formosissima, JACOBEAN or ST. JAMES'S LILY, of the section 

 SPREKELIA: cult, from South America : scape bearing a single large and de- 

 clined deep crimson-red flower, with hardly any tube, and 2-lipped as it were, 

 three divisions recurved-spreading upwards, three turned downwards, these at 

 base involute around the lower part of the deflexed stamens and style. 



A. Reginae, from South America ; with 2-4 large almost regular nodding 

 flowers, crimson-red, with hardly any tube, and the deflexed stamens curved 

 upwards at the end. 



A. Bellad6nna, from the Cape of Good Hope ; has elongated bulbs, chan- 

 nelled narrow leaves shorter than the solid scape, and several almost regular 

 large rose-red fragrant flowers, funnel-form with very short tube, the stamens 

 not much declined. 



A. speci6sa, or VALL6TA PURPUREA, from Cape of Good Hope ; the scar- 

 let-red flowers with funnel-shaped tube rather longer than the broad ovate and 

 nearly equal spreading divisions. 



6. GALANTHTJS, SNOWDROP. (Name formed of the Greek words 

 for milk and^oitw, probably from the color.) Fl. earliest spring. 



G. nivalis, of Europe, sends up soon after the winter's snow leaves the 

 ground a pair of linear pale leaves and a scape 3' -6' high, bearing its delicate 

 drooping white flower, the inner divisions tipped with green : a variety is full 

 double. 



