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COOPERIA. 



A North- American family of tender bulbs, with showy 

 flowers expanding at night. The flower-stem is erect and 

 stiff, each bulb producing but one at a time, crowned with a 

 single flower. Soil sandy loam. Propagated by offsets or 

 seeds, which should be sown in spring. The species are, 



C. pedunculata. With white and yellow flowers. 



C. chlorosolen. White and evergreen. 



C. Drummondii. White and red flowers, natives of 

 Texas and Mexico. 



HAYLOCKIA. 



A little bulb, allied to Cooperia, with straw-colored 

 flowers, blooming in September, a native of Buenos Ayres, 

 thriving in sandy loam and leaf-mould. The leaves grow all 

 winter, and the plant rests in the spring. Propagated by 

 seeds or offsets. H. pusilla is the only species. 



ANDROCYMBIUM. 



A family of Cape bulbs, with green or white flowers, grow- 

 ing in loam and sand, and propagated by seeds and offsets. 



A. eucomoides, melanthoides, volutare, are the species. 

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