is this remarkable difference :—in both the scape rises from the 
~ bulb, nearly simultaneously with the foliage; in 2. multiflorus 
it springs laterally from the outside of the cluster of leaves; in 
our plant, as in that of Decaisne, the scape forms the axis or 
centre of the plant, and is surrounded by the sheathing base of 
_ the leaves. These leaves externally (below) gradually become 
sheathing scales, more or less tinged with purple, and which 
form a kind of stem. I really can point out no other difference. 
Fig. 1. Section of the perianth. 2. Section of the ovary :—slightly magnified. 
