HCEMODOftACE-E. 3GZ' 



May. Scape 9 to 12 inches high, roundish, slender, bearing a few fragrant flowers, 

 of a rich chlorine yellow, V/ 2 to 2 inches in diameter. Cup \^ inch long. L 

 8 to 10 inches long, with the edges soir.evrhat rollad- 



2. N. pceticus, L. Poet's Narcissus. 



Scape 1 -flowered; segments of the perianth, imbricate at base, somewhat n flexed, 

 nearly round; crown short, flat, rotate, erennlaie; 3 urJi.e-rs sho/tor than the tube 

 Native of South Europe. June. Stapi about 1 foot high, bearing a single white 

 flower, 1}^ to 2 inches in diameter ; the cup or crown singularly adorned witi 

 des of crimson, white and yellow. 



3. Ni Pseuda-Xarcisstjs, Tu Daffodil 



Scape 2-edged, straight, sir iattdj tegmenta of the pfrionth orate or epalulatc- 

 ovate, sulphur-yellow; grown very long, with a crenate-eevrata oritke. Native cf 

 England. April, May. Leaves linear, 9 to 12 inches long, striate, vein-d. 

 C to 12 inches high, bearing at the top a single large flower, about 2 inches in 

 diameter, commonly doubled by cultivation. Cup V/, to 2 inches long, orange- 

 ycllow. 



4. N. SULPHTJRET7S, L. Sv.hJier-colorcd Daffodil. 



Scape 2-edged; leaves linear, Cat; spathe 1-flowcred; tegmenta of the peri nt .■ 

 elliptic-spatulate; crown somewhat bell- form, crenate. May, June. J 

 straw-colored, 2 inches in diameter,, on a scape 1 foot high. Crown J^ inch long 

 orange-yellow. SiyU lo-ng^ 



6. LEUCOJUM, Linn. S-nw-Flake. 



Perianth regular, departed : segments equal, spreading, 

 Stamens 6« equal : anthers long. Style clayate, longer 

 than the stanieDS. — Exotic bulbous jjlontSj with ensiform* 

 leaves and of tcu munBrmu white flowers issuing from a tcrmi- 

 na! spathe. « 



L. .estiyum, L. /Summer Show-Flake, 



Leaves long, ensifonn ; spathe many-flowered, loug; divisions of the- per 

 regular, oval. June. A pretty border flower; native of Austria. Scapi 1 to 2 

 feet high. Leaves 1 to 2 feat long, l / 2 - acU - wide. Spathe 2 to 3 inches long. wi;h 3 ■ 

 te 10 flowers, on peduncles at last 1)4 to 2>< inches long. FJowers whit. ; the di? 

 fiakma tipped with green. 



Order 120. HCEJTODOHACEIEi;— Bhodwort Family 



Herbaceous plants, with fibrous perennial roots, cqidtant leaves and perfect 3 to 6 

 androus regular fir/wers, tuhich ere usually more, or less woolly outride ; the tube of 

 the 6-lobed periantJt, coherent with the whole surface, or with merely the lower part, of* 

 the 3 celled ovary. Stile single, sometimes 3-partible. Capsule crowned or inclosed I 

 by the persistent -perianth, 3-cellad, losulicidal, 3-many-aecdccL 



ALETRIS, Linn. Star-grass. 



Je slave-.wbogrinds corn, in..allusion to the ar 

 of the flowers. 



Perianth cylindrical; tubular-bell-shaped ; rough-crinkled 



<3r. Aletris, a female slave-, wbogrinds corn, in..allusion to the apparent mealiacs&w 

 ofthe flowers. 



