the other of a deep red-brown colour ; it alfo varies with from 

 one to twelve flowers. Is faid by Parkinson to have been 

 brought by the French colony from Canada into France, and 

 from thence to us in 1629. Catesby found it in Penfyl- 

 vania, and Mich au*x in the Alleghany mountains of Carolina 

 and Virginia. Flowers in July and Auguft ; mould as well 

 as fuperbum be kept in bog-earth in a fomewhat fhady 

 and moift fituation ; is tolerably hardy and propagates abun- 

 dantly by its bulbs, which are of a creeping nature ; in very 

 fevere winters theie are fometimes deftroyed, unlefs protected 

 by a covering of afhes or old tan. 



Our drawing was taken at the Botanic Garden, Brompton f 

 from a fpecimen of the more rare and lefs beautiful variety 

 which had blown rather weakly from being planted in too 

 fmall a pot. G. 



