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Malvacece: Abutilon, eight species cultivated are yellow 

 or orange. 

 Malva, twelve yellows and many purples. 

 Hibiscus, twenty j^ellows and twelve purples. 

 Sida, tifty-eiglit yellows and one })uiple 



AmaryUiacem : Alsfroineria, Bomarea, Zeplri/mnlhei^^ 

 Narcissus: this last has tifty-four species either 

 white or yellow, some with highly developed cups or 

 trumpets, also the others very handsome, preponder- 

 ating colors yellow, orange or scarlet. Hypoxis 

 same order, all yellow. 



LiJiacece: Blandfordia, Heine rocallis , large, beautiful, 

 chiefly yellow, larger and handsomer than Funkia, 

 white or purple, also Lilium, Erythronium, Uvula- 

 ria, TuUpa, Kniphojia, etc. 



Bigiioniacem, Bignonia fiowers tubular, ten cultivated 

 yellow species, also Tecoma, etc. 



Scrojjhulan'acea' : Veronica has eighty species wholly 

 purple ; this genus has its color ascribed to it on 

 account of high development ; but high development 

 is wholly valueless with regard to color, with Ver- 

 bascum, Celsia, Gerardia, Bedicularis, Liuaria, 

 Verbascum, Mimidus, Gratiola, and many other gen- 

 era of the same family, largely yellow and superior 

 every way. Calceolaria with yellow or xanthic hues 

 is more highly modified. 



Ericacea' : some of the largest and handsomest, as in 

 Rhodendron, are yellow. 



Hi/pericace(V : Hypericum, sixty-six yellows and one red ! 



Onagracea' : Oenothera, a large family, is almost wholly 

 yellow, 



Primulacea' : Primula, a dozen species yellow colored, 

 tubular, salver shaped, etc. 

 Lysimachia and Steironema, all yellow. 

 The smallest flowered species have the darkest 

 hues ! 



