16 THE FLOMST AND POMOLOQIST. [January, 



by Mr. Bull in 1869. The individual plants are from four to five inches across, 

 but the perianth segments, instead of forming a single series, as in the type, are 

 multiplied into about six series, and are for the most part opposite, lying over 

 each other in their recurved position like the petals of the hexangular Camellias. 

 The colour is a bright orange-red, densely spotted with oblong blackish-purple 

 spots, which become smaller towards the centre of the flower. 



L. (t.) Lishmanni (Florist, 1872, 16, with fig. J — This is a well-marked Lily, 

 evidently of the tigrinum group, though presenting points of variation, and 

 abundantly different as a garden flower in the spotting of the flowers, the ground 

 colour of which is of the usual cinnabar or orange-red, the spots being in this 

 case sparse towards the apex of the segments, becoming both bolder and closer 

 placed towards the base, but stopping somewhat abruptly, so that the centre of 

 the flower is quite free from them, a circumstance which permits of the 

 characteristic furrow and papilla being all the more readily seen. This plant, 

 which comes from Japan, was received in 1871 by T. E. Tufnell, Esq., from Mr. 

 Lishmann, after whom it is named ; it was shown at South Kensington in 

 August last, when it obtained the reward of a first-class certificate ; and our 

 plate is prepared from the specimen then exhibited. It differs in some particulars 

 from the tigrinum type, as the accompanying description of it will show,* but it 

 is evidently too nearly allied to that species to be permanentlv separated from it. 

 It will probably become as vigorous as the other forms of L. tigrinum just 

 noticed, when it becomes better established. — T. Moore. 



DIANTHUS DIADEMATUS PLENISSIMUS. 



i HIS is an exceedingly beautiful and very useful hardy annual, growing from 

 12 in. to 15 in. high, and belonging to the type of Dianthus Heddewigii, or 

 the Indian Pink. Its usefulness consists in furnishing an abundant supply of 

 very beautiful and slightly perfumed flowers for cutting during most of the 

 summer and autumnal months, even up to the middle or end of October. The 

 blossoms rival in form and in the beauty and diversity of their markings the 

 finest of the Pinks and Picotees of the florist. This result has been secured by 

 pursuing a system of careful selection, that is, by saving seed from only the best 

 marked and perfectly double and well-formed flowers, until the strain is such as 

 to rarely produce a plant bearing single blossoms. 



The seed should be sown in pans under glass about the middle or end of 

 March ; and the young plants should be finally planted out about the beginning 

 of May in beds or lines where it is desired to flower them. Or, if more convenient, 



* stem erect, green, glabrous, furrowed. Leaves lanceolate, acute, crowded below, broader, shorter, and 

 more scattered upwards, not bulbiferous in the axils, sessile, 4 in. long, three-nerved, with four secondary 

 nerves; bracts short, ovate. Flowers in a terminal panicle, nodding, on sim|ile pedicels, recurved at the tip. 

 Perianth segments, 3 in. long, nearly equal, revolute. with a prominent furrow, and a few lateral papillceat 

 the base, nearly or quite an inch broad, the sepaline segments with a purplish-green papillose wart at the 

 apex outside; the colour a rich tawny orange, unspotted at the base, then thickly dotted with black spots, 

 some of which are confluent, the apical third of the length almost free. Filaments divergent, about half as 

 long as the segments, orange-coloured, tipped by the chocolate-coloured anthers. Style orange-coloured, 

 about equalling the filaments. — T. M. 



