This includes many plants which have bulbous roots, some of them being poisonous. The Colchicum autumnale, or Meadow Saffron, is the type of this order; it grows in moist meadows, producing a purple flower which appears before the leaves. The root or bulb, and the seeds, are used in medicine. [Illustration: Meadow Saffron.] 6. LILIACEÆ (Lily kind). The Liliaceæ are a very numerous tribe, including the Lilies, Hyacinths, and Tulips, the Onion, Garlic, Asparagus, the Cape Aloe, Yucca, and many others; they are for the most part bulbous plants, having simple leaves enclosing the stem. The Palms are included in this order; they are among the tallest and most graceful of the vegetable tribes, and in the countries where they abound are applied to almost every purpose that can be enumerated. [Illustration: Lily.] 7. AMARYLLIDACEÆ (Narcissus kind). The Amaryllidaceæ are the Narcissus tribe, including also the Agave, or American Aloe, and the Snow-drop. The greater number of species belonging to this order are natives of the Cape of Good Hope, some of these are poisonous; the juice of the Cape Blood-flower (Hæmanthus Toxicarius) is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows with. [Illustration: Narcissus.] 8. IRIDACEÆ (Crocus tribe). The Iridaceæ include the Crocus (Crocus sativa), the Corn-flag (Gladeolus communis), and the Blue-flag (Iris Germanica); the bulb of the Iris Florentina, is dried and used for various purposes, it has a scent resembling violets and is sold at druggists' shops by the name of orris-root, a corruption of iris-root. [Illustration: Crocus.] 9. ORCHIDACEÆ (Orchids). [Illustration: Butterfly Orchis.] The family of the Orchis. Dr. Baird, in describing them, says:--"They are almost all herbaceous, a very few only being somewhat shrubby in their growth; some live in the ground, and besides the ordinary roots have bulbs or starch-bearing tubercles; others are what may be called pseudo-parasites, living attached to the bark of trees. These plants abound in the forests of tropical countries, where the climate is moist, and are generally known by the name of Epiphytes. The flowers vary very much in shape, form, and colour, and in many instances have a striking resemblance to insects, various birds, and animals, as Oncidium, in which the resemblance is to butterflies, &c.; Cychnoches, in which (in one species) the likeness is strikingly similar to a swan; Peristeria, one species of which is called the Sprito-Santo plant, of Panama, and in whose flower there is the likeness of a dove descending upon the lip, &c. A curious fact in this part of their history is, that in the same plant, on the same stem, and even on the same head of flowers, we find flowers so different in appearance that we might place them in different genera." 10. NAIADACEÆ (Naiads).