deep furrows; here, nearly round, furrowless, and much 
longer.in proportion to the flower. In multiflora the germen 
is turbinate and trigonal, with deep acutely prominent 
lobes ; in the present plant, oblong and nearly cylindrical. 
There, the corolla is wider, of a somewhat urceolate form, 
tubeless, and intersected from the apex of the gerinen by a 
deep constriction at the base; here, the corolla is narrowly 
funnel-form, with a conspicuous trigonal tube, which is га- 
ther longer than the germen, and has no remarkable con- 
striction at the junction with it: here, the style protrudes 
beyond the corolla; not so there. ‘They differ also in the 
colour of the flower. The capsule of multiflora is turbi- 
nate, broad ventricose, and depressed at the top, and from 
two to four inches long, with deep-winged lobes, divaricately 
veined, and nearly transparent; in the present plant the 
capsule is scarcely'an inch and a half long, obovately oblong, 
with shallow, but acutely cornered, lobes reticulately veined 
and opaque. Multiflora conveys to our fancy the idea of 
unsymmetrized bulkiness, the present plant that of sym- 
metry and lightness. 
The specific name of Josephine was a tribute of respect 
from the author of the Liliacées to the late repudiated Em- 
press of France, a munificent patroness of botany and 
horticulture, by whom the fine collection in the garden of 
La Malmaison was formed, and to whose fostering care we 
are indebted for more than one of the most splendid bota- 
nical works which have ever appeared. 
The bulb in the variety (а), figured in the Liliacées by 
M. Redouté, was larger than the egg of an ostrich; the 
leaves three feet or more in length, much firmer and broader 
than in (8), the present, and very blue; the umbel was above 
two feet and a half in diameter, and had 60 flowers; its 
stem as thick as a child's wrist. In (8), as it flowered at 
Mr. Griffin’s, the stem was about а foot and a half high, and 
about the thickness of a finger; leaves, about two feet long 
and an inch and a half broad, apple green, slightly glau- 
cous; umbel, few-flowered, as may be seen in the diminish- 
ed figure we have added ; corolla, about three inches deep. 
Messrs. Lee and Kennedy are in possession of an offset 
from the plant which flowered at La Malmaison. 
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