230' 



The sixth species has a ver}' small round bulb: the leaves three 

 or four, long, slender, grass-like, dark green: the stem very slender, 

 round, a foot and halt" high: at the lop the flowers are collected in a 

 spike sitting close to the stalk, each having a thin, dry spathe, which 

 covers the capsule after the flower is fallen. The corolla is pure 

 white, and small. 



The seventh species has a bulb the size of a hazel nut: the leaves 

 three or four, many -nerved, upright, smooth, half the length of the 

 scape: the scape round, smooth, upright, many-spiked, from a foot to 

 two feet in height: the branches alternate, capillary, upright, a finger's 

 length: the flowers on the scape and branches in spikes, on a flexuose 

 racliis of a finger's length : the spathes submembranaceous and 

 awned. The flowers appear in May. . . 



Jt varies with the corollas yellow and violet, of one colour. 



The eighth species has the bulb double the size of a hazel nut; 

 the leaves three, four, or five, many-nerved, half the length of thg 

 scape: the scape usually simple, seldom many-sj)iked, round, up- 

 right, from a span to a foot high and more : branches filiform, 

 upright, or spreading very much: flowers in terminating spikes, on 

 a flexuose rachis : spathes membranaceous, gray at the base, brown 

 at the tip, somewhat jagged: the corolla, above the mouth of the 

 tube, has a dusky spot at the base of the border. 



According to Miller, the stalk is slender, stiff', a foot and half 

 long, naked to the top, Avhere it is terminated by a round bunch of 

 flowers, each enclosed in an oblong spathe, which is permanent, and 

 splits open on one side: the flowers are on short peduncles, deep 

 yellow with a dark-purple bottom. It flowers in May and June. 



The ninth has the bulb a little larger than a hazel nut: the leaves 

 about five, reflex-subfidcalc, many-nerved, from an inch to a finger's 

 length, half or one-third ol' the length of the scape: the scape simple, 

 round, or branched, souicwhat flatted, flexuose, upright, smooth, 

 from a hand to a span in height: the branches spreading very much, 

 naked, like the scape: the bractes gray at the base, ferruginous at 

 the tip, slightly toothed and jagged : the floweis pointing one way, 

 handsome, bell-shaped, witii a sliort tube, orange-coloured with a 



