. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. 50 FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. The Lily family is noteworthy as containing a large proportion not only of our most beautiful wild flowers, but also of the various ex- otics which we cultivate for early blooming. Thus the little squill {Sciila) hangs out its blue bells with the first soft breaths of spring, and is followed in quick succession by the showy Tulips and Hyacinths, the Fritillarias and the stately Crown-imperial {Imperiahs). In the woods at about the same season blossoms that exquisite flower which has so long staggered unde
. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. 50 FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. The Lily family is noteworthy as containing a large proportion not only of our most beautiful wild flowers, but also of the various ex- otics which we cultivate for early blooming. Thus the little squill {Sciila) hangs out its blue bells with the first soft breaths of spring, and is followed in quick succession by the showy Tulips and Hyacinths, the Fritillarias and the stately Crown-imperial {Imperiahs). In the woods at about the same season blossoms that exquisite flower which has so long staggered under the unmeaning and inaccurate name of "Dog's-tooth Violet," as if anything in the floral world could be more remote in ap- pearance as well as structure than the lily and the true violet. The plant is some- times, but not often, called by the quite appropriate term "Adder's Tongue," but it might be still better called what it is, namely, an Ery- thronium. The Lilies of the field and garden [Lilium), the old-fashioned Day-lilies {liemerocallu) and the tall Yuccas are too well-knownto need more than a passing comment. I presume that the onion, however, would scarcely be admitted as a true Liliaceous plant except by botanists. Nevertheless it belongs there, and the small flowers, when examined under a lens, are really'quite lily-like in appearance. The bulbs of many of the lilyworts, as they were called by Lind- ley, are mucilazinous and contain medicinal properties. The well known drug syrup of squills is obtained from the South European Soilla maritima. The onion and its varieties, botanically known as species (5f Allium., is one of our most, familiar garden vegetables. Aloes are obtained from Aloe, a genus extensively distributed in Africa; while the original "dragon's-blood," a drug now obtained from numerous plants, was derived from Draccena Fig. 44.—Various species of Lilium: L. canadense; L. pardalinum; L. philadelphioum; L. superbum
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