THE IDENTIFICATION OF PLANTS 109 



ally in dense, flat-topped clusters ; and it and 

 all its neighbors for many pages Evening 

 Primroses, Violets, Sumachs, Milkworts, Ge- 

 raniums, Clovers and Roses and their rela- 

 tives, Mustards, Crowfoots and Pinks have 

 the parts of the flower in fives or fours or twos, 

 never in threes or sixes. 



Next you reach the Amaranths and Knot- 

 weeds which have .tiny inconspicuous flowers, 

 not at all like yours. The Virginia Snakeroot 

 has irregular flowers again : the Wild Ginger, 

 heart-shaped leaves. Then come the Orchids, 

 in all of which the flowers are of strange and 

 fantastic shapes, very unlike the simplicity 

 and symmetry of the one you have. The Blue- 

 eyed Grass has a six-parted regular flower, but 

 it is nearly flat and, as its name indicates, blue 

 in color; and the leaves are very narrow and 

 grass-like. A glance shows your plant cannot 

 be an Iris indeed, you know that yourself. 

 The Star-grass has flat flowers and narrow 

 leaves. Here, however, on page 60, you find 

 at last in the Atamasco Lily, a flower which 

 closely resembles yours and feel that you are 

 getting "warm." But it grows upright, not 



