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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical

by Frank H. Stauffer

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The Belladonna Lily

This flower (the Amaryllis formosissima), in a strong light, has a yellow lustre like gold. It was originally named flos Jacobœbus, because some imagined that they discovered in it a likeness to the badge of the knights of the order of St. James, founded in Spain in the fourteenth century.

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