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the ovate-lanceolate divisions 6' or more long, spreading almost from the base 

 and the tips revolute, white with a light yellow band down the middle of the 

 upper face, which is spotted all over with prominent purple spots and rough 

 with bristly projections near the base. Probably a Japanese hybrid of the pre- 

 ceding with some other : the most showy species known. 



3. Flowers inclined, vihite, more or less funnel-form in outline ; the naked sessile 

 divisions conniving or somewhat united below into a tube, their summits 

 moi-e or less spreading, but hardly recurving. All cultivated, from Asia, 

 * with scattered leaves. 



Ii. candidum, COMMON WHITE LILY. Cult, from Persia, &c. : with lan- 

 ceolate leaves, and few or several bell-shaped flowers, smooth inside, sometimes 

 double. 



L. Japonicum, JAPAN WHITE L. Cult, from Japan : 2 high, with 

 mostly onlvone flower, which is nodding and larger than in the foregoing, below 

 connivent into a narrower tube, and above with the divisions more widely 

 spreading. 



L. longiflorum, LONG-FL. WHITE L., of Japan : 1 high, with lanceo- 

 late leaves, and a single horizontal funnel-form flower, 5' or 6' long, the narrow 

 tubular portion longer than the rather widely spreading portion. 



22. FRITILLARIA. (Latin fritillus, a dice-box, from the shape of the 



flower, which differs from a Lily in its more cup-shaped outline, the divisions 



not spreading.) Fl. spring. 



F. Meleagris, GUINEA-HEN FLOWER. Cult, from En. : 1 high, with 

 linear alternate leaves, mostly solitary terminal flower purplish, tessellated with 

 blue and purple or whitish ; the honey-bearing spot narrow. 



P. imperialis, or PET{ LIUM IMPERIALS, CROWN IMPERIAL. Cult, from 

 Asia: a stately herb of early spring, 3 -4 high, rather thickly beset along 

 the middle with lanceolate or lance-oblong bright green leaves more or less in 

 whorls ; flowers several hanging in a sort of umbel under the terminal crown 

 or tuft of leaves, large, orange yellow, or sometimes almost crimson, a round 



arly ^land on the base of each division ; pod 6-angled. 



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. TULIPA, TULIP. -(Name and the common species said to come 

 from Persia.) Fl. spring and early summer : all from the Old World. 

 T. Gesneriana, COMMON T., from Asia Minor, is the original of the 



various ordinary hardy kinds ; leaves lance-oblong, glaucous, shorter than the 



flower-stalk ; divisions of the flower very obtuse. 



T. suav^oleus, SWEET T. of Eu. : low ; flower sweet-scented, its divisions 



acute, appearing very early. 



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24. ERYTHRONIUM, DOG-TOOTH- VIOLET. (Name from the 

 Greek word for red, not appropriate even for the original European species.) 

 Fl. spring. 



E. Dens-canis, DOG-TOOTH- VIOLET of Eu : sometimes cult. ; has broadly 

 oblong pale leaves little spotted, and a rose-purple or almost white flower in 

 earliest spring. 



E. Americanum, YELLOW D. or ADDKR'S-TONGUE. Moist or low 

 woods, very common E. : leaves oblong-lanceolate, mottled and dotted with 

 dark-purplish and whitish ; flower light yellow. 



E. albidum, WHITE D. Rare in N. Y. and Penn., but common W. : 

 leaves less or not at all spotted ; flower bluish-white. 



25. ORNITHOGALUM, STAR OF BETHLEHEM. (Name in Greek 

 means bird's-milk, a current expression for some marvellous thing.) Fl. 

 early summer. 



O. umbellatum, COMMON S. or TEN-O'CLOCK, from Eu. : in old gardens 

 and escaped into some low meadows : leaves long and grass-like ; flowers bright 

 white within, green outside, opening in the sun, on slender stalks. 



