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I'l.OWKRS Ol-- l,.\Ki>, KI\KRS, ETC. 



Like many oiIkm' jujualic plants, the aerial stem is a scape wilh 

 many s\v()rcl-shai)cd, lonLi" leaves surroundinn' it, and i^iving; it a grass- 

 like- hahit. The leaves are 3-si(led, spongy, twisted, and very sharp, 



Flowering Ri>iii [RnlnDins nmhi-lliiliis, I,.) 



hence the first dreek name. The ba.se of the stem is reddish, like 

 the flower-stalks also. The leaves are sheathed at the ba.'^e. 



The scape is smooth, round, bearing a single umbel of large 

 numerous flowers (20-30 in an umbel), rose-colour, red, |)urple, the 

 perianth-segments oblong at first with 4 grooves, then more or less 

 heart-shaped. The bracts have a membranous margin. The involucre 



