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The perianth of this pretty spring flower is like a round, small 

 bell or globe with 6 little teeth on the edge. The flowers are 

 crowded in long racemes at the end of the scape. Root a bulb. 

 The specific name means, and the deeply colored flower-bells sug- 

 gest, a bunch of grapes. Originally cultivated, and now escaped 

 from gardens, found in grass-plots, along roadsides, and in 

 meadows, from Massachusetts to Virginia and Ohio. 



35. Common Day-lily 



Hemerocallis f6lva. — Family, Lily. Color, orange-yellow. 

 Leaves, long, narrow. Time, July. 



This lily has left the old gardens, escaped to roadsides and 

 fence-corners, where it leads a Bohemian sort of life. It grows 

 tall, and bears several blossoms, short-pedicelled, with small bracts. 

 Stamens large and prominent. The blossoms last a day only, and 

 then wither. 



The yellow, sweet-scented lily {H.Jlkva) should also be noticed 

 as occasionally escaping from cultivation into a wild state. 



36. Tiger Lily 



Ulium Tigpinum. — A garden species, tall, 2 to 5 feet, stout- 

 stemmed, leafy to the base, is often found in the fence-cor- 

 ners and along roadsides, growing wild. The stem is nearly 

 black or dark purple, bearing black bulblets in the upper leaf- 

 axils, which sometimes throw out rootlets. Leaves, lance- 

 shaped, with prominent ribs and entire outlines, alternate. 

 Flowers, often numerous, large, drooping, with orange -red, 

 spotted, turned-back sepals. It has i long pistil and 6 sta- 

 mens, projecting and spreading. 



