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N. Taz6tta, Poltanthhs N. Leaves as of the preceding linear and 

 nearly tiat, glaucous ; flowers numerous in an umbel, yellow or sometimes 

 white, with the crown a golden or orange-colored cup one third or almost one 

 half the length of the divisions. 



N. Jonquilla, Jonquil. Leaves narrow, rush-like or half-cylindrical ; 

 flowers 2 to a, small, yellow, as also the short cup, very fragrant. 



W. Pseudo-Naroissus, Daffodil. Leaves flat, and 1-flowered scape 

 short ; flower large, yellow, with a short and broad tube, and a large bell-shaped 

 cup, having a wavy-toothed or crisped margin, equalling or longer than the 

 divisions : common double-flowered in country gardens. 



3. PANCRATIUM. (Name in Greek means alj powerful: no obvions 

 reason for it.) Elowors large, showy, fragrant, especially at evening in 

 summer. Cult at the North ; the following wild S. in wet places on and 

 near the coast. 



P. maxitimum. 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 nari'ow-lanceolate 

 divisions of the perianth are united. 



P. rotatum (or P. MbxicXnum). Leaves linear-strap-shaped, widely 

 spreading, bright green, 2' or more wide ; scape sharply 2-edged ; 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 cup. 



4. CRINUM. (The Greek name for a Lily.) Showy conservatory plants, 

 chiefly from tropical regions ; one wild S. 



C. am&bile, from East Indies ; the huge bulb rising into a column ; leaves 

 becoming several feet long and 3'-5' wide; flowers numerous, 8'-10' long, 

 crimson-purple outside, paler or white within. 



C. Americ^num, wild in river swamps far S. ; much smaller, with a 

 globular bulb ; scape 1°- 2° high; flower white, 6' - 7' long. 



5. AMARYXiIiIS. (Dedicated to the nymph of this name.) One wild 

 species S. ; many in choice cultivation, and the species mixed. The following 

 are the commonest types. 



A. Atamftsco, Atamasco Lilt, wild from Virginia S. in low grounds ; 

 scape 6' - 12' high, mostly shorter than the glossy leaves ; flower 2' - 3' long, 

 single from a 2-c!eft spathe, regular, funnel-form, white and pinkish ; stamens 

 and style declined. 



A. formosissiuia, Jaoob.ean or St. James's Lilt, of the section 

 SpREKinA : cult, from South America : scape bearing a single large and de- 

 clined deep crimson-red flower, with hardly any tube, and 2-llpped as it were, 

 three divisions recurved-spreading upwards, three turned downwards, these at 

 base involute around the lower part of the deflexed stamens and style. 



A. Eeginse, from South America ; with 2-4 large almost regular nodding 

 flowers, crimson-red, with hardly any tube, and the deflexed stamens curved 

 upwards at the end. 



A. Bellad6nna, from the Cape of Good Hope ; has elongated bulbs, chan- 

 nelled 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. 



A. specidsa, or Vall6ta puBpfjEEA, from Cape of Good Hope; the scav- 

 leMed flowers with funnel-shaped tube rather longer than the broad ovate and 

 nearly equal spreading divisions. 



6. GALANTHTJS, SNOWDROP. (Name formed of the Greek words 

 for milk &i\A flower, probably from the color.) PI. earliest spring. 



G. nivilis, of Europe, sends up soon after the winter's snow leaves the 

 ground a pair of linear pale leaves and a scape 3' -6' high, bearing its delicate 

 drooping white flower, the inner divisions tipped with gi'een ; a variety is full 

 double. 



