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H". Taz^ttaj Polyanthus' N. Leaves as of the preceding lineav and 

 nearly flat, glaucous ; flmvers 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. Jonqullla, JoNQujL. Leaves narrow, rush-like or half-cylindrical; 

 flowers 2 to 5, fsmall; yellow, as also the short oup, very frsigrant. 



N. Pseudo-ifaroissuS, Daffodil. Leaves flat, and 1-flowered scape 

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

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

 divisions : common double-flowered in country gardens. 



3. iPAlirCRATIUM. (Name In Greek means all powerful: no obvtous 

 reason for it.) Flowers 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. mariitimuin. , 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; , ■ . , 



P. rotktum (or f. MisxiciNDji). Leaves .linear-strap-shaped, 'wfdely 

 spreading, bright green, 2' or more wide ; scape .sharply 2-edged ; slender tu,be 

 of .the periantli audits linear widely, spreading divisions, each about. 3' long, the 

 latter wholly free from the short and broadly open wavy-edged' oup. ' " ■. 



4. CRINXJM, (The Greek name for aLily.) Showy conservatory plants, 

 chiefly from tropical regions ; one wild S. 



C. amdybile, from East Indies ; the huge hulb rising into a column ; leaves 

 becoming. sei^eral feet long and 3'-5' wide; flowers numerous, 8' -10' long,' 

 crimson-purple outside, paler or white within. i ,,,.,.. . 



- C. A.IIliSric&Ilum, wild in river swamps far S,. ; much sipaller, with a 

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



5. AMAE'TLLIS. (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. AtamilSCO, Atamasco Lily, wild from Virginia S. in low grounds ; 

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

 single from a 2-cleft spathe, regular, funnel-form, white and pinkish ; stamens 

 and style declined.' ,.■■■■ - - - . ■• - , ,- 



A. formo&fs^iina," JacobAian or 8t. James's Lily, of the section 

 SpEEKiLiA:, cult, from Sojith- America : gcape bearing a -single largje^and de- 

 clined deep crimson-red flower, with hardly any tube, and 2-lipped 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. HegluSB, from South America ; with 2- 4 large almost regular nodding 

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

 upwards at the end^ 



A. BellEtddnna, from the Cape of Good Hope j has elongated bulbs, .chan- 

 nelled narrow leaves shorter than the solid scape, and Several almost regular 

 large . ro.se-red fragrant flowers, fuunel-forni with very short tube, the: stamens 

 not much declined. 



A._ specidsa, or VALLiTA puRptiKEA, from Cape of Good Hope ; the scar-. 

 let-red flowers with funnel-shaped tube ratherlsnger thanthe broad ovate and 

 nearly equal spreading divisions. i 



6. GALAWTHTJS, SNOWDROP. (Name formed of the Greet words 

 for mzV/i: a'nd 7?ower, probably from the color.) Fl. earliest spring. 



G. nivalis, 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, .tearing its delicate 

 drooping white flower, the inner divisions tipped with , green i ^ Yariety is full 

 double. 



