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just beyond is the yellow-eyed grass family, and near it the 
pipewort family. Coming now to the spiderwort family, we 
have represented mainly the spiderworts and day-flowers. 
Among the former are the spiderwort, the mountain spider- 
wort, and the reflexed spiderwort; in the latter is the common 
day-flower. Ina small pool and along its eastern edge is 
placed the pickerel-weed family. Here will be found a large 
clump of the pickerel-weed (Pontederia) which is so com- 
mon in swamps and along streams in the vicinity of New 
York; here will also be found the water-hyacinth, which has 
become such a pest in some of the rivers of Florida and the 
West Indies, and the closely related blue water-hyacinth, of 
more straggling habit, also of tropical origin. 
he rush family occurs next in the sequence, represented, 
among others, by such familiar plants as the common bog- 
rush, the slender rush, and the common wood-rush. Follow- 
ing this come the members of the bunch-flower family, with 
several species of bellworts, the turkey-beard, the Japanese 
toad-lily, the fly poison, the swamp pink, and others. Closely 
related to this is the lily family. One of the beds given over to 
this family is devoted to the true lilies (Z7//um) in several 
forms; another is set aside for the onions and their relatives, 
of which there are many interesting forms, some of them of 
decorative value; while another bed is given to a miscella- 
neous collection of plants belonging to this family, among 
which may be mentioned the day or plantain lilies, the yel- 
low day lilies and the lemon lilies, the true asphodel or king's 
sword, the grape-hyacinth, and Adam’s needle. Other close 
relatives of the lilies belong to the lily-of-the-valley family ; 
here will be found many familiar plants, among them being 
the lily-of-the-valley (Convallarza), the wild spikenard, the 
common asparagus, of such wide use as a vegetable in the 
early part of the summer, and several species of the Solo- 
mon’s-seal, both from the Old World and the New. 
The amaryllis family is shown by a number of species of 
daffodils and narcissus. In the iris family, which comes next, 
many species are represented. Most familiar among these 
