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little. It flowers in July and August, and is found in North 

 America. 



There is a variety with larger deeper-coloured tlov/ers. 



The ninth has a roundish small bulb: the stem quite simple 

 round, even, a foot high: the leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-linear, 

 sessile, four or six, striated, rather blunt, even, upright; two or three 

 of the upper ones usually alternale, narrower: the flowers terminat- 

 ing, fe-u', an inch and a half in diameter, on very short, naked, al- 

 most upright j)cduncles: the petals ovate, blunt, even, striated, pur- 

 ple, not rolled back, attenuated at the base: the filaments shorter by 

 half than the corolla: the anthers upright: the germ triangular and 

 oblong: style none: stigmas three, oblong, curved back, almost the 

 length of the germ. It is a native of Kamtschatka. 

 ... The tenth species has a smaller root than in the other sorts, scaly 

 and white: the stem single, upriglit, near a fool and half high: the 

 leaves in four or five whorls, short, pretty broad, obtuse: the stem 

 terminated by two flowers which stand erect, upon short separate 

 peduncles; they are shaped like those of the bulb-bearing fiery Lily, 

 but the petals are narrower at their base, so that there is a consider- 

 able space between them, but upwards they enlarge and approxi- 

 mate, forming a sort of open bell-sha})cd corolla, but they terminate 

 in acute points: are of a bright purple colour, marked with several 

 dark ]nn-ple spots towards the base. 1 1 flowers in July, and the seeds 

 ripen at the end of September. It is a native of North America. 



Culture. — All the sorts are capable of being increased by plant- 

 ing the off-sets of the root, and by sowing seeds to obtain new va- 

 rieties. 



All the sorts of these roots afford plenty of off-sets every year, 

 which when greatly wanted may be taken off annually in autumn ; 

 but once in two or three years is better, according as they are wanted ; 

 the proper time for which is in summer and autumn, when the flower 

 is past and the stalks decayed, either separating the off-sets from the 

 mother bulbs in the ground, or taking the whole up, and sepai-ating 

 all the off-sets, small and great, from the main bulbs; the small off- 

 sets being then planted in beds a foot asunder and three inches deep, 



