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ous, and armed with spiny teeth. Flower-stalk branched, 

 several feet high; flowers nodding, yellow. Sandy, waste 

 places, and rocky hillsides. 



Yucca Serrulata, Haw; or Y. Glorifolia. Linn. (Spanish 

 bayonet; Adams needle.) A plant with rough, woody, cylind- 

 rical stem, five to six feet high, leaves one or more feet long, 

 spear-shaped, thickly clustered at summit, one inch wide, 

 with rough margin, and slender, needle-shaped points or 

 springs, very nasty to handle. Flower-stalk erect, many 

 flowered, nodding. Flowers two inches long, white with 

 purple base, forming a very showj', dense cluster. It is quite 

 common, but its dagger-like leaves make it very formidable. 

 Edg-s of thickets, rocky barrens, and sandy soil are its favour- 

 ite loc lities. June to August. 



Ivilium Ivongiflorum. (Easter lily.) Although extensively 

 cultivated in fields it is not uncommon as an escape, and is 

 quite naturalized. This is a dwarf growth of the following: — 



Ivilium Harrissii. (White Easter lily; Bermuda lily.) This 

 was originally introduced from Japan, but its cultivation as a 

 staple product only dates from 1878. Although a considerable 

 number of buds are shipped North for Easter decorations, yet 

 the main trade lies in the bulbs, thousands of which are annu- 

 ally exported. The bulbs of these lilies are composed of scales 

 laid one upon the other, at the base of each of which is an 

 embryo bud, representing a future plant. The erect stem is 

 from two to four feet high, well leafed all its length with a 

 bunch at the summit of from three to five white blossoms, 

 several inches long, trumpet-shaped and often at a right angle 

 with the stem. General Hastings and Mr. Harris (florist of 

 Halifax, N. S.) may be st3'led the fathers of the introduction 

 here of this valuable lily. 



Hemerocallis Fulva. L,inn. (day lily. ) A plant with oval- 

 pointed, very crinkled leaves of a pale green, six or seven 

 inches long and nearly as wide, throwing up a flower stem or 

 stems six or eight inches high, bearing a raceme of white, long 

 tube-shaped flowers. 



Agapanthus Umbellatus. (blue lily, locally called Star of 

 Bethlehem. 1 Bears a naked stem bout two feet high, with a 



