POPULAR FLORA. 
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100. AMARYLLIS FAMILY. Order AMARYLLIDACEiE. 
Like the Lily Family, but with the (regular or slightly irregular) 6-cleft perianth cohe- 
rent below with the surface of the ovary, and therefore in appearance inserted on its 
summit. Stamens 6. Fruit a 3-celled pod. Herbs generally with naked stems or scapes, 
and long linear leaves, from a coated bulb, commonly with showy flowers. Herbage and 
bulbs acrid and poisonous. 
Flower with a cup or crown at the throat of the salver-shaped or funnel-shaped perianth. 
Stamens long, from the edge of the cup-shaped crown : anthers linear, swinging free : 
divisions of the perianth long and narrow, recurved. Flowers white, 
showy ; the cluster leafy-bracted, ( Pancratium ) ^Pancratium. 
Stamens included in the cup, unequal : filaments very short. Flowers from a scale- 
like spathe, ( Narcissus ) ^Narcissus. 
Flower without any cup or crown on the perianth. 
Anthers fixed by the middle and swinging free, linear or oblong: filaments generally 
curved. Flowers large and showy, generally red or pink, ( Amaryllis ) ^Amaryllis. 
Anthers erect on the filament. 
Flowers in a spike, funnel-shaped, white, very fragrant, ( Polianthes ) ^Tuberose. 
Flowers in an umbel, or single: perianth 6-parted down to the ovary. 
Flower single, from a 1-leaved spathe, white, nodding: three inner divisions 
of the perianth shorter than the three outer, and notched at the end : 
anthers long-pointed, ( Galanthus ) ^Snowdrop 
Flowers one or more from a 1-leaved spathe, white, nodding ; the 6 divisions 
of the perianth alike, often green-tipped: anthers blunt, (Leucbium) ^Snowflake. 
Flowers few, with 2 small bracts at the base of the pedicels ; the star-shaped 
perianth yellow, closing and remaining on the pod. Leaves grass- 
like, hairy. Plant small, ( Hypoxys ) Star-Grass. 
Narcissus. Narcissus. 
* Tube of the flower slender; the cup or crown much shorter than the 6 spreading divisions; anthers 
borne on the inside of the cup, or 3 of them a little protruding, on short filaments. 
1. Poet’s N. Scape flattish, tall, mostly one-flowered; flower white, the very short and flat crown 
yellow, generally margined with crimson or pink; sweet-scented; leaves bluntly keeled, rather 
glaucous. Gardens. N. poeiicus. 
2. Jonquil N. Flowers 1 to 4, on a round and slender scape, yellow, very fragrant, the cup saucer- 
shaped ; leaves terete, channelled down one side. Gardens. N. Jonquilla. 
3. Polyanthus N. Flowers several, on a flattish scape, white, with a bell-shaped cup, not fragrant; 
leaves flat, glaucous. Gardens. N. Tazetta. 
* * Tube of the flower short, funnel-shaped; the cup or crown very large, bell-shaped, with a wavy- 
crisped or toothed margin, equalling or longer than the 6 divisions of the perianth, and bearing 
the stamens on its base. 
4. Daffodil N. Flower one, large, sulphur-yellow, with a deeper yellow cup, on a flattened scape 
1° high; leaves flattish. In all gardens; most common with flowers double, so that their structure 
is obscured. N. Pseudo- Narcissus. 
