advantage of our flower-borders. Forty-nine species of the genus 

 Trichinium are known to science ; but none is more beautiful 

 than the present, unless it be T. spectabile, Field. I.e. t. 289; 

 and that is considered by Moquin as probably a short and broad 

 spiked var. of the present, with narrow leaves. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens and pistil. 3. Pistil: — magnified. 





