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* * Flowers white. 



C. Asidticum, Linn. Tropical Asia ; slender perianth tube Z'-H long, 

 green tinged ; flowers about 20 in an umbel, the linear segments 2'-3' 

 long. Bulb 4'-5' in diam., with a long neck, the peduncle sharp-edged, 

 2° high. 



C. Americanum, Linn. Eiver swamps Ha., W.; scape l°-2° high, 

 from a globular bulb ; flower white, 6'-7' long ; leaves concave and ob- 

 tuse, remotely denticulate. 



10. AMARYLLIS. (Dedicated to the nymph of this name.) 



A. Belladdnna, Linn. Belladonna Lilt. Cape of Good Hope ; has 

 elongated bulbs, channeled narrow leaves shorter than the solid scape, 

 and several almost regular large rose-red fragrant flowers, funnel-form 

 with very short tube, the stamens not much declined. 



11. VALLOTA. {Pierre Valot, an early French botanist.) 



V. purpOrea, Herb, (or Amaryllis speci&sa). Cape of Good Hope; 

 the scarlet-red flowers with short funnel-shaped tube, rather longer than 

 the broad-ovate and nearly equal spreading divisions. Popular green- 

 house plant, with scape 2°-3° high, the leaves (equaling the scape) 

 lance-linear. 



12. PANCRATIUM. (Greek: all potent, probably in reference to 

 some supposed medicinal qualities.) 



P. marltimum, Linn. Sea Daffodil. Glaucous ; leaves linear, erect ; 

 scape barely flattish ; perianth 5' long, its green tube enlarging at summit 

 into the funnel-shaped 12-toothed cup, to the lower part of which the 

 spreading narrow-lanceolate divisions of the perianth are united. Salt 

 marshes, S. Car., S. (Eu.) 



13. HYMBNOCALLIS. (Beautiful membrane, Greek name referring 

 to the cup connecting the filaments.) Several species wild, S. and W. 



H. lacera, Salisb. (Pancratium rotAtum, or P. MexicAnum). Leaves 

 linear strap-shaped, widely spreading, bright green, 2' or more wide ; 

 scape sharply 2-edged, 2-6-flowered ; slender tube of the perianth and its 

 linear widely spreading divisions each about 3' long, the latter wholly 

 free from the short and broadly open wavy-edged saucer-like cup ; bulb 

 bearing runners. Low banks and swamps, N. Car. , S. 



H. occidentalis, Kunth. Leaves strap-shaped, glaucous, 1£' or less 

 broad ; scape 3-6-flowered, the bracts narrow and about 2' long ; tube 4' 

 or less long, the linear white segments nearly the same length ; crown 

 about 1' long, tubular below and broadly funnel-form above, the margin 

 either entire or toothed ; bulbs without runners. S. 111., S. 



14. EUCHARIS. (Greek: very graceful.) From S. Amer., in green- 

 houses. 



E. grand iflbra. Planch. & Linden. (E. Amaz6nica). Scape 2°-4° high, 

 bearing 3-6 white, drooping, large (4 '-5' wide) flowers in an umbel ; crown 

 green-tinged; leaves several, the petiole mostly rather larger than the 

 wide, strongly ribbed blade. 



15. ALSTRG3MERIA. (Named by Linnaeus for his friend Baron 

 Alstroemer.) Several species of the conservatory, from W. S. Amer. , 

 of mixed species. 



A. Pelegrlna, Linn. Lilt of the Incas, from Peru. Flowers few or 

 solitary at the end of the branches, open, rose-colored or whitish, blotched 



