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37. CHIONODOXA. (Greek: glory of the show, referring to the 

 early flowering.) 



C. Luciliae, Boiss. A pretty little bulbous plant from Asia Minor; 

 scape 6' high, bearing a raceme of 3 to 6, and sometimes more, flowers 

 which are deep blue shading to white in the center (a variety is white- 

 flowered), the acute segments widely spreading or even recurved, and ex- 

 panding to nearly 1' across ; leaves narrow. 



38. MTJSCARI, GRAPE or GLOBE HYACINTH. (Name from the 

 musky scent of the flowers in one species.) Flowers spring. 



M. botryoldes, Mill. Common Gkape Hyacinth of country gardens, 

 escaping into lawns and fields ; a pretty little plant, sending up in early 

 spring its narrow linear leaves, and a scape (5'-7' high) bearing a dense 

 raceme of globular deep blue flowers which are barely £' long, resembling 

 minute grapes, scentless. Eu. 



M. moschatum, Willd. Musk Hyacinth. Glaucous, with larger and 

 ovoid-oblong, livid, musky-scented flowers, and linear-lanceolate shorter 

 leaves. Asia Minor. 



M. combsum, Mill. Larger, 9' high, with violet-colored oblong flowers, 

 on longer pedicels in a loose raceme, the uppermost in a tuft and abor- 

 tive ; the monstrous variety most cultivated produces, later in the season, 

 from the tufted apex of the scape a large panicled mass of abortive, con- 

 torted, bright blue brancjilets, of a striking and handsome appearance. 

 S. Eu. 



39. HYACINTHUS, HYACINTH. (Mythological name.) The so- ' 

 called H. candicans, of gardens, a plant 4°-6° high and bearing 20 to 

 100 bell-shaped, creamy flowers, is Gai/t6nia candicans, Decne., of S. 

 Africa. 



H. orientalis, Linn. Common H. Of the Levant, with its raceme of 

 blue flowers, is the parent of numberless cultivated varieties, of divers 

 colors, single,__ and double ; tube of the perianth more or less ventricose, 

 the segraents'oblong-spatulate. Flowers spring. 



Var. dlbulus, Baker, of S. France, is the parent of the Roman Hya- 

 cinths. It is slenderer, with more erect leaves, flowers small and white, 

 and the tube scarcely ventricose, bearing oblong segments. 



40. AGAPANTHUS. (Of Greek words for amiable flower.) One 

 species. ' 



A. umbellatus, L'Her. A handsome house plant, turned out blooms in 

 summer; leaves large, bright-green (a variegated variety), l°-2° long; 

 scape l£°-2° high, bearing an umbel of pretty large blue flowers. There 

 are many garden forms, varying chiefly in color of flowers (some white) 

 and size of plant. Cape of Good Hope. 



41. HEMEROCALLIS, DAY LILY. (Name, in Greek, means beauty 

 of a day, the large flower ephemeral.) Cult, from the Old World, 

 especially in country gardens ; the first species escaped into roadsides ; 

 flowers summer. 



H. ftilva, Linn. Common Day Lily. A familiar, rather coarse and 

 tall plant, with broadish linear leaves and tawny orange flower, the inner 

 divisions wavy and obtuse. 



H. flara, Linn. Yellow D. Less coarse, with narrower leaves and 

 clear light yellow, fragrant flowers, the inner divisjons acute. Less com- 

 mon than the other, but handsomer. 

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