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througli Syria, Caslimere, and the north of India, to China and Japan. 

 There is a very large number of forms wild in the south of Europe, 

 and known in cultivation, which do not differ from it in any important 

 characters, and which appear to slide into one another so gradually, 

 that it is impossible to individualize them, or characterize them in any 

 definite manner. Of those known in our gardens thirty years ago^ 46 

 are briefly described in Haworth's Monograph under specific names, 

 and recently 26 of the wild ones have been fully described by Professor 

 Parlatore ('Flora Italica,' vol. iii. pp. 125-156), and 14 of them have 

 been beautifully figured in Jordan and Fourreau's ' Icones Florae Eu- 

 ropsese.' To these works we refer any of our readers who wish to 

 study out the subject in full detail. All that we propose to attempt 

 here is to characterize a few of the most striking of these various forms, 

 and to enumerate under each of them the most important or best 

 known figures and synonyms. 



Series 1. — Segments of the limb lohite, crown yellow. 



Var. 1, N. lacticolor.—T\\e. typical plant, as just described, of which 

 good figures will be found in Sibthorp and Smith's ' Flora Grseca,' t. 

 358, and Moggridge's ' Mentone,' t. 23. — Hermione brevistyla and H. 

 Tazetta, ex parte, Herbert and Kunth. H. formosa, Jordan, t. 189, 

 H. discolor, Jordan, t. 183, and H. pratensis, Jordan, t. 187. //. 

 Trewiana, Sweet, ser, 2. t. 118 ; Jord. Ic. t. 188 (a large form, com- 

 mon in cultivation, with flowers nearly 2 inches across). H. Jtoribiinda , 

 Haw. Mon. p. 11 ; Jord. Ic. t. 181 (large). N. Cypri, Sweet, ser. 2. 

 t. 92. H. crispico7'ona, Haw. Mon. p. 11 ; Jord. Ic. t. 190 (a large- 

 flowered form, with a deep-coloured, crisped corona, \^^ in. broad at 

 the mouth). H. hrevlflora and H. auratdlcorona, Haw. Mon. p. 11, 

 and N. orientalis, Bot. Mag. t. 940 (nearly or quite the same as the 

 last). N. patidus, Lois. Journ. Bot. 1809, ii. p. 276, the same as 

 Hermione palula, Haw. Mon. 11 ; Kunth, v. p. 755 (a small form, 

 with the expanded flower 9-10 lines across, tube ^ in. long, leaves 3-4 

 lines broad). ^ 



Yar. 2, N. mediterraneus. — Differs from the last by the narrower divi- 

 sions of the flower, which are not more than a quarter of an inch broad, 

 not at all imbricated, and more lengthened out at th6 point. — H. me- 

 diterranea, Jord. t. 185. H. monspeliensis, Jord. t. 186. IT. insoliia, 

 Joid. t. 184. H. ganymedoides, Jord. t. 182 (divisions slightly rc- 

 flexed). 



