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Flowers small. delicate, blue, changing to purplish, 4 to 6 opening in iuccc- 

 Syathe often purplish. Tbere are various intermediate ft . 



CULTIVATED E SO TICS. 



3. PARDANTHUS, Linn. Blackberry Lilt. 



Gr. pzrdulis, a panther, and anthes, flower ; the flowers are spotted like the panther. 



Statue of 2 or 3 ovate short bracts. Perianth regular, 

 6-partcd; the divisions equal. Stamens 3, with thread- 

 like filaments. Stigma straight or incurved, fixed by the 

 "base, subfiliform. — An ornamental garden plant} Kith yellow- 

 ish and reddish spotted Jlowers. 



P. Ciiinensis, L. Blackberry Lily. 



Stem round, flexuous, leafy; leans enaiform, vertical, sheatl - r rr.e- 



•what diehotonious and corymbosi Hat, spreading; segments lance-lmeaii 



July, Aug. Native of South Africa. Common in cultivation. » 3 feet 



high. Leaves tapering to an acute point. Flowers yellow, spotted with red, 1 tc 

 1l]/ 2 inch in diameter. Fruit composed of numerous black glossy set 

 round the rachis.. resembling a blackberry. 



4. CROCUS, Linn. Saffron. Crocus. 



Named fiom the youth Crocus, v\ho, according to Grecian mithology, was changed 

 into this flower. 



Perianth funnel-form, the segments united at ba.se i 

 a slender tube. Stamens 3. Stigma 3-cleft, convolute, 

 crested. — Bullous plants, with a radict.l 1 to 2-leaved thin 



transparent spathe, the long tube of the Jlowers nearly or quite sessiii 

 upon the bulb. 



1. C. SATIVA, L. Saffron Crocus. 



Leaves linear, revolute on the margins; stigma 3-parted, as long as the c i 

 refiexed. Sept. From Asia. Leaves radical] with a longitudinal white t 

 above. Flower nearly sessile on the bulb, with a long white tube, and pui 

 liptical segments. Stigmas long, emarginate, exaert of a deep orange color 



stigmas compose thesaffson of the shops so much iicinal and coloring 



purposes. There is a variety with yellow perianths. 



2. C. vernus, L. Spriny Saffron. 



Leaves short, linear; stigmas included within the flower, with 3 short wedge- 

 shaped segments. Native of the Alps. Shape 1 to 2 inches high, 3-sided. Flowers 

 mostly purple, often yellow, pale blue or white, very variable; tuU very ."-lender, 

 gradually enlarged upwards, closed at the mouth with a circle of hairs; Kmb bell 

 shaped, shorter than the tube. JLuthen yellow, sagittate. March, April. 



5. TIGRIDIA, Linn. Tiger Flower-. 



Name in reference to the large spotted flowers. 



Spatee 2-leaved, carinate, 1-flowercd. Perianth 6- 



