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understand what this is when it is compared with Astragalus alopecuroides, which it is a good deal like, It is half- 
shrubby, growing عدم‎ in peat-soil and flowering in August. Though not showy, its fine foliage renders it well 
adapted for shrubberi 
eoarse rockwork, iid 
flower borders, devoted 
to the cultivation of the 
rougher kind of peren- 
nials.—Jowrn. of Hort. 
Soc., vol. vii. 
624. BOMARIA 
ACUTIFOLIA. Herbert. 
(aliàs ^ Alstroemeria 
acutifolia Zink and 
Otto.) A half-hardy 
twining herbaceous 
plant. Native of 
Mexico. Flowers dull 
red. Belongs to Ama- 
ryllids. (Fig. 7 
Stem, according t 
M.M. Link and Otto, 
attaining a height of five 
or 
terminal, o many 
erect, and but slightly 
ones oblong, of a iem 
but not very bright red ie d i 
acute ; the three inni more delicate in texture, broadly spathulate, orange-coloured ; all ei €— a تحتو‎ 
at the tip. Stamens shorter than the corolla. Filaments pale reddish-purple. Anthers 0 = 57 2 n 
inferior, turbinate, ies qd downy ; style straight, filiform, Aperi white, thickened e s t yr a ise sd 
terminated by a trifid stigma. Capsule remarkably —€— oF opening at the by 
on vam nett of it, of a bright ict colour. e 
For this beautiful species of Alstræmeria our gardens are indebted to Mr. Otto of | Berlin, — transmitted € 
Botanic © Gardens both of ooo and — - from speci , 
Mag. 
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