292 THE FLORA. 
1. NAROIS'SUS. Jonquil. Daffodil. 
Perianth regular, crown of one piece, funnel-form or bell-form, consist- 
ing of a whorl of sterile petal-like filaments united by their edges, within 
which the fertile stamens are inserted.—A beautiful genus of bulbous 
plants with sword-shaped leaves and yellow or white flowers. None here 
native. + April-June. 
* Scape bearing 1-3 large flowers....2-4 
* N. Tazet/ta. Polyantkus. Scape many-flowered, sep. white, crown yellow, short, 
2 N. Daf’fodil. Daffodil, Scape 2-edged. Sepals whitish. Crown yellow, long 
and large. 
8 N. Jonquil’la. Jonguil. Scape terete. Crown yellow, much shorter than the 
yellow sepals, 
4 N.poet/icus. Poet's Narcissus. Scape terete. Crown variegated, rotate, short; 
sepals mostly white. 
2. AGA'VE. American Aloe. 
1 A. Virginica. False Aloe. Scape simple, 5-6f. high. Flowers in a spike, greemish- 
yellow. Leaves linear-lanceolate, serrate. Penn. S. 
2 A. America’na. Century Plant. Scape branched, 15-25f. high, bearing 1 vast 
panicle of yellow flowers, after many years. Leaves very thick, lanceolate, 
spinous-dentate, often striped. t 
Orper CXLITI. IRIDA’CEX. The Irids. 
Perennial herbs, arising from bulbs or thickened roots; 
leaves 2-rowed ; flowers perfect, regular or irregular, spathaceous ; 
perianth of 6 petal-like segments; stamens 3; anthers turned outwards, 
ovary inferior, 3-celled, with 1 style and 3 stigmas, becoming in 
Jruit a 8-celled capsule with many albuminous seeds. 
Analysis of the Genera. 
1 Flowers regular, 8 petals unequal to the 8 sepals....2 
1 Flowers regular, petals and sepals alike....8 
1 Fis. irregular, stamens ascending. Sds. winged. + Corn Flag. Giapr’oxus. 
2 Stamens separate. Stigmas petal-like. Petals erect. Sepals reflexed. Ins, 1 
2 Stamens united. Sepals very large. Pets. spreading. + Tiger. er, TIGRID’IA, 
8 Flowers blue, small, rotate. Leaves, &ec., grass-like. (Fig. 48.) 
Blue-eyed-grass, S¥stryn’cuum, 
8 Fis. purp., white or yellow, tube very long, sessile on the bulb. + Cro’ous, 
8 Fis. yellow, red-spotted, tube short. Height 3-51 + cia, PaRDAN ‘THUS, 
