Excerpt from Familiar Garden FlowersIt is, perhaps, a matter of very small importance, but it has been suggested that the narcissus is not an aquatic plant, and that the narthecium answers fairly to the conditions and the description, and may really be the narcissus of the fable. N.o., -ln-urryllirlacm. Linnean: G, Efren/ulna, 1, filmm gg/uiu. - This is an interesting order, and should be carefully studied, more especially as to the points in which it agrees or differs with Ith'mrew, for grave mistakes are made by lovers of plants in determining the relations of members of these orders. All the Amaryllids are herbaceous perennials, and the majority have bulbous roots, but this is not a constant character. The leaves are sword-shaped, the ¿owers are hermaphrodite, with six divisions, the stamens six, the ovary three-celled, the fruit a three-celled capsule. In the narcissus will be seen a striking departure from the simple structure of the flower of a true amaryllis. The tube or corona in the centre of the ¿ower has greatly perplexed the botanists, many of whom regard it composed of con¿uent stamens. In the lovely eucharis, which may be called the Daffodil of the Amazons, we have a similar structure, and the same problem as to its origin. The amaryllids are scattered pretty freely about the world, both in temperate and tropical climates they are. Mostly acrid in their properties, and not a few of them are decidedly poisonous. On the other hand, although the lilies are in some cases acrid and dangerous, Very many of them are useful as food and medicinal plants, which is not often the case with amaryllids. In this order we have in addition to the narcissus, which is so acrid that cattle never eat it, the snowdrop, snow¿ake, nerine, crinum, pancratium, hippeastrimr, agave, and vallota, all much-prized garden plant-s.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.