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100. AMARYLLIS TAMILT. Order AMARYLLIDACEvE. 

 Like the Lily Family, but with the (regular or slightly irregular) C-cleft perianth cohe- 

 rent below with the surface of the ovary, and therefore in appearance inserted on its 

 summit. Stamens G. Fruit a 3-celled pod. Herbs generally with naked stems or scapes, 

 and long linear leaves, from a coated bulb, commonly with showy flowers. Herbage and 

 bulbs acrid and poisonous. 



Flower with a, cup or crown at the throat of the salver-shaped or funnel-shaped perianth. 

 Stamens long, from the edge of the cup-shaped crown: anthers linear, swinging free; 

 divisions of the perianth long and narrow, recurved. Flowers white, 

 showy; the cluster leafy-bracted, {Pancratium) *PAxcr.ATitrM. 



Stamens included in the cup, unequal: filaments very short. Flowers from a scale- 

 like spathe, {Narcissus) *Nai:gissiis. 

 Flower without any cup or crown on the perianth. 



Anthers fixed by the middle and swinging free, linear or oblong: filaments generally 



curved. Flowers large and showy, generally red or pink, {Amaryllis) *Amaeyllis. 

 Anthers erect on the filament. 



Flowers in a spike, funnel-shaped, white, very fragrant, {Polidnthes) *Tubekose. 



Flowers in an umbel, or single: perianth 6-parted down to the ovary. 



Flower single, from a 1-leaved spathe, white, nodding: three inner divisions 

 of the perianth shorter than the three outer, and notched at the end: 

 anthers long-pointed, ( Galdnthus) *Ssowdeop 



Flowers one or more from a 1-leaved spathe, white, nodding; the 6 divisions 



of the perianth alike, often green-tipped: anthers blunt, (Z,e«cdium) *Sxowflake. 

 Flowers few, with 2 small bracts at the base of the pedicels; the star-shaped 

 perianth yellow, closing and remaining ou the pod. Leaves grass- 

 hke, hairy. Plant small, {Eypoxys) SxAn-GEASs. 



Narcissus. Narcissus. 

 Tube of the flower slender; the cup or crown much shorter than the 6 spreading divisions; anthers 

 borne on the inside of the cup, or 3 of them a little protruding, on short filaments. 



1. Poet's N. Scape flattish, tall, mostly one-flowered; flower white, the very short and flat crown 



yellow, generally margined with crimson or pink; sweet-scented; leaves bluntly keeled, rather 

 glaucous. Gardens. N. poeticus. 



2. Jonquil N. Flowers 1 to 4, on a round and slender scape, yellow, very fragrant, the cup saucer- 



shaped; leaves 'terete, channelled down one side. Gardens. N. Jonquilla, 



3. Polyanthus N. Flowers several, on a flattish scape, white, with a bell-shaped cup, not fragrant; 



leaves flat, glaucous. Gardens. JV. TazeUa. 



* * Tube of the flower short, funnel-shaped; the cup or crown very large, bell-shaped, "with a wavy- 

 crisped or toothed margin, equalling or longer than the 6 divisions of the perianth, and bearing 

 the stamens on its base. 



4. Daffodil N. Flower one, large, sulphur-yellow, with a deeper yellow cup, on a flattened soaps 



1° high; leaves flattish. In all gardens; most common with flowers double, so that their structure 

 is obscured. N. Pseiulo-Narcissus. 



