. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. 296 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 2. GALANTHUS. Snowdrop. Small, spring-blooming plants, with a single white flower nodding from the top of the scape, followed by grass-like leaves: perianth divisions 0, oblong and more or less concave, the three inner ones shorter, some of them usually green-blotched at the tip : anthers and style pointed. G. nivalis, Linn. Snowdrop. Fig. 43G. One of the earli- est of spring flowers, appearing as soon as the snow is gone, the flower and leaves arising from a small bulb: scape 6 in. or less high: inner divisions of the b
. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. 296 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 2. GALANTHUS. Snowdrop. Small, spring-blooming plants, with a single white flower nodding from the top of the scape, followed by grass-like leaves: perianth divisions 0, oblong and more or less concave, the three inner ones shorter, some of them usually green-blotched at the tip : anthers and style pointed. G. nivalis, Linn. Snowdrop. Fig. 43G. One of the earli- est of spring flowers, appearing as soon as the snow is gone, the flower and leaves arising from a small bulb: scape 6 in. or less high: inner divisions of the bell-shaped flower tipped with green. Europe. 3. LEUCOlUM. Snowplake. Flowers often more than 1: divisions of the perianth all alike: anthers and style blunt: otherwise very like Galanthus. L. v6rnum, Linn. Snowflake. Taller than the snow- 436. Galanthus *^''°P (^l^out 1 ft.), the scape usually 1-flowered, blooming nivalis. later, the flowers larger. Europe. 4. POLIANTHES. Tuberose. Leafy-stemmed lily-like plants, with a thick, tuberous rootstock (whence the name (iiber-ose not ), bearing an erect spike of white flowers: perianth with a short slightly curved tube and G spreading nearly equal divisions: stamens included in the tube (not projecting). P. tuberdsa, Linn. Tuberose. Two to 3 ft., bearing long-linear, chan- nelled, many-ranked leaves: flowers very fragrant, sometimes tinted with rose. A popular garden plant from Mexico, blooming in the open in late summer and autumn; some forms are VI. lEIDACE^. Iris Family. Differs from Amaryllidacese and Liliaceas in its inferior ovary, three stamens which are opposite the outer parts of the perianth, and 2-ranked equitant .(bases overlapping) leaves: stigmas some- times large and petal-like. About 60 genera and 700 species. Eep- resentative plants are iris or blue flag, crocus, gladiolus, freesia. Crocuses and freesias are easily grown in window-boxes for winter and spring bloom. A. Lobes of the style flat and co
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