AN 



INDEX 



TO 



BULBOUS 



PLANTS. 



THE term ''Bulb" has a verj wide horticultural significance^ and is by no means restricted 

 to the description of Bulbous Plants properly so-called, Colchicums, Crocuses^ and 

 Gladioli are corms^ most of the Irises are rhizomatous^ and the roots of the garden Ranunculus 

 are tuberous : yet all are familiarly known and purchased as '' Bulbs." 



Orchids are not 



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Most of the plants named in nurserymen s Bulb catalogues are here cl 

 to hardiness^ or the protection required for their successful culture/ 

 included, but are treated separately further on in the Supplement. 



After each name is given abbreviated information as to the colours of the flowers^ and the 

 height of the plant in feet and the fractions of a foot. Where plants are grown for their 

 foliage, e,g,y Caladiums and other Aroids^ the contractions following fol refer to the colours 



and markings of the leaves. 



For information as to selection and general treatment, the reader is referred to the 



article on ^^Bulbs/^ in Vol. I. 



The following abbreviations are used : 



h^ blue ; hlc, black ; c, cream ; fol, foliage ; g, green ; gy, grey ; I, lilac ; m, magenta ; o, orange j p, purple ; pi, pink ; 



r, red; s-ag, semi-aqnatio ; si, silvery ; Vj violet; w, white; y^ yellow. 



HABDT. — Aconitum album {w; 4-5} ; A. angustifolium 

 Q) ; 2-3) ; A. biflorum (b; i) ; A. delphinifolium {h-p ; i-2) ; 

 A. eminens (b ; 2-4) ; A. gracile (h or v; 2) ; A. Halleri {v ; 

 4-6) ; A. H. bicolor (w, variegated h ; 4-6) ; A, japonicum 

 {w-pi; 6); A. lycoctonum (v ; 4-6); A. Napellus (&; 3-4) 

 and vars. ; A. Ottonianum (h, variegated w ; 2-4) ; A. pani- 

 culatum (v; 2-3); A. rostratum {o ; 1-2) ; A. tauricun^(5; 

 3-4); A. -ancinatiim (I; 4-8); A. variegatum {b ; 1-0) and 

 vars.; A. Willdenovii (b-p; 1-3); Allium acuminatum (joi; 

 hi) ; A. azureum {h; 1-2) ; A.Bid^velliffi {pi ; i) ; A. Breweri 

 (pi; i); A. coeruleam (5; i) ; A. falcifolium (pi; i) ; A. 

 Macnabianum (m ; 1); A. Moly (y; |.1|^ ; A. Neapoli- 

 tanum (u; ; li-lj) ; A. nigrum (v or «? ; 2h3k) ; A. 

 pedemontanum (pi-p); A. reticuJatum attenuifolium (w ; 

 J-li) ; A. roseura (Lpi ; l-ii) ; A. sphseroceplialum 

 (li-2i) ; Alstromeria aurantiaca (o, streaked r; 3-4); 

 A. chilensis (pi-tt?, varying to o or r ; 2-3) ; A. psitta- 

 cina (r, g, and p; 6); Ampelopsia napiformis (<;) ; A. 

 serjaniasfolia; Anemone apennina (6; J); A. baldensis {w ; 

 i); A. coronaria (variable; i) j A. nemorosa (w; i) and 



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Hardy — continued, 



vars. ; A. palmata {y ; f) and vars. ; A. ranunculoides (y 

 or p; i) ; A. stellata (p or pi-r; ^) ; Anthcricum Liliago 

 (tc) ; A. Lilia^^trum {w, sc; 1-2); A. ramosum (lO; 2); 

 Arisffiuia Griffitiii (hr-v; 1-1|); A, rlngena (g, w, and p) ; 



A. triphylla {p~hr and;;; f -1) ; Arum italicum (g-yorwi 

 -2) and var. ; A. probo.scideum (g-p ; i) ; A. tenuifolium 



(tc; 1); Asclepias tubero3a (o; 1-2); Aspbodelua alhus 

 (to ; 2) ; A. creticua (y ; 2) ; Bellevalia syriaca ^ (w ; 

 1) ; Biarum tenuifolium (hr-p ; i) ; Brodiaaa capitata 

 (v-h; 1-2); B. congesta {h ; 1); B. c. alba (w ; 1) ; 



B. grandiflora {b-p ; U) ; B. Howellii (p-b; 11-2) ; B. lactea 

 (w, midribs g; 1-2); B. multiflora (h-p ; 1-1 1) ; Bulbo- 

 codium veruum (v-p, spotted w ; i) ; Calliprora lutca (p-6r; 

 I); Camassia esculenta [b ; 1^); C. e. Leicbtlini (c; 2); 



C. Fraseri (6; 1); Chionodoxa Lucili^ (b, w centre ; i); C. nana 

 (w and l-y i); Chlorogulum pomeridianum (ic, veined p ; 2) ; 

 Chryeobactron Hookeri (1/ ; H-3) ; Claytonia virginica (tr ; 

 i) ; Colchicum autumnale (p ; i) and vara, ; C. Bivonffi (w 

 andp); C. luteum (y; i) ; C. Parkmsoni {w and p); 



