LILY FAMILY 



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/;7«/ a capsule. (Name of Greek origin, from Colchis, a country 

 famous for medicinal herbs.) 



I. C. autiunndle (Meadow Saffron, Autumn Crocus). — Leaves 

 lanceolate, dark green, glabrous, often a foot long, produced in 



C(''I.CHICL'M ArTl-"-MX.\L£ {Mt'ad.'zc Saffroii). 



NARTH^CIUM OSSIFRAC.U^ 



(Bci Asphodel). 



spring and withering in summer ; ftuwers light purple or white, 

 presenting no conspicuous difference from "Crocuses except their 

 6 stamens ; ovary remaining underground .until the spring after 

 flowering, when they are borne up by the elongating peduncle and 



