European Monocotyledonous plants ; and affords the inha- 

 bitants of the north a striking idea of the splendour of those 

 graceful and majestic trees, which are seen only by the 

 traveller in tropical regions. 



The variety now represented is, we presume, a native of 

 more northern latitudes than that which has for so many 

 years contributed to the beauty of our cottage gardens. 

 Its seeds were received from Dr. Fischer, under the name 

 of A. sibiricus : it differs from A. luteus in its dwarfer 

 stature, earlier and paler flowers, more glaucous leaves, 

 and shorter bracteae ; we cannot, however, on these accounts, 

 consider it more than a variety of that species. 



It is a perfectly hardy perennial, and requires to be 

 treated precisely in the same way as A. luteus. 



J. L. 



