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Crown cupshaped, 2-4 lines deep, the edge uni- 

 form with the rest — 

 Leaves glaucous, flattish, i-f in. broad . . . 11. Tazetta. 

 Leaves subterete, green — 



Flowers 1-2, nearly white, with a tube 12-14 



lines long 12. gracilis. 



Flowers 3-6, yellow, with a tube 8-9 lines 



long 13. INTEEMEDIUS. 



Crown obconical, uniform, not more than a line 

 deep — 

 Flowers white ; leaves flattish, glaucous, 3-4 



lines broad 14. pachybolbus. 



Flowers bight yellow ; leaves terete, bright 



green 15. Jonquilla. 



Crown obconical, 1-1^ line deep, the edge differ- 

 ent in texture to the rest, and much crisped 

 and crenulate — 

 Flowers in pairs ; crown with a yeUow rim . 16. bifloetts. 

 Flowers solitary ; crown with a scarlet rim . 17. poetictts. 

 Flowering in autumn : — 



Leaves contemporaneous with the ilowers — 



Divisions of the flowers greenish 18. viridifloeus. 



Divisions of the flower white 19. elegans. 



Leaves produced after the flower 20. serotinus. 



Limb of the flower campanulate ; crown nearly obso- 

 lete ; anthers shorter than their filaments . . .21. Beoxjssonetii. 



XI. N. Tazetta (L. Sp. Plant, p. 416) —Bulb 1^-2 in. thick, co- 

 piously tunicated, with brown membranous coats ; leaves 4-6 to a 

 scape, glaucescent, flattish, bluntly keeled on the back, ^f in. broad 

 in the wild plant. Scape a foot or more high, furnished with 2 raised 

 lines, and distinctly compressed. Flowers odorous, produced late in 

 March or early in April near London, usually 4-8 ; the spathe 1|— 2 

 in. long, the lower pedicels exceeding it. Tube f— | in. long above 

 the ovary, the divisions of the flower white, rather shorter than the 

 tube, the alternate ones frequently narrower, all much imbricated, 

 bluntish or cuspidate, 4-5 lines broad, spreading horizontally when 

 fully expanded or slightly reflexed ; the expanded floitver in the wild 

 plant 13-15 lines across. Crown a uniform bright yellow, 2|-3 lines 

 deep, the edge subentire or slightly crenulate or lobed. Anthers ses- 

 sile, biseriate, the upper ones protruded into the crown. 



The above description applies to a plant wliich is very conmion in 

 cultivation, and extends in a vvild state from the south of Europe, 



