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just beyond is the yellow-eyed grass family, and near it the 

 pipewort family. Coming now to the spiderwort family, we 

 have represented mainly the spiderworts and day-flowers. 

 In a small pool and along its eastern edge is placed the pick- 

 erel-weed family. Here may be found a large clump of the 

 pickerel-weed (Pontederia) which is so common in swamps 

 and along streams in the vicinity of New York; here may also 

 be found the water-hyacinth, which has become such a pest 

 in some of the rivers of Florida and the West Indies, and the 

 closely related blue water-hyacinth, of more straggling habit, 

 also of tropical origin. 



The rush family occurs next in the sequence, represented, 

 among others, by such familiar plants as the common bog- 

 rush, the slender rush, and the common wood-rush. Follow- 

 ing this come the members of the bunch-flower family, with 

 several species of bellworts, the turkey-beard, the Japanese 

 toad-lily, the fly poison, the swamp pink and others. Closely 

 related to this is the lily family. One of the beds given over 

 to this family is devoted to the true lilies (Lilium) in several 

 forms; another is set aside for the onions and their relatives, 

 of which there are many interesting forms, some of them of 

 decorative value; while another bed is given to a miscella- 

 neous collection of plants belonging to this family, among 

 which may be mentioned the day or plantain lilies, the yel- 

 low day lilies and the lemon lilies, the true asphodel or king's 

 sword, the grape-hyacinth and Adam's needle. Other close 

 relatives of the lilies belong to the lily-of-the-valley family; 

 here may be found many familiar plants, among them being 

 the lily-of-the-valley {Convallaria) , the wild spikenard, the 

 common asparagus, of such wide use as a vegetable in the 

 early part of the summer, and several species of the Solo- 

 mon's-seal, both from the Old World and the New. 



The amaryllis family is shown by a number of species of 

 daffodils and narcissus. In the iris family, which comes next, 

 many species are represented. Most familiar among these 

 are: the common blue flag of our swamps, the yellow flag 

 of Europe, the German iris, the Siberian iris, the Japanese 



