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shaped funnel, but afterwards the form of the perianth is more nearly 
cylindrical. Anthers yellow, subapiculate. Style white, with a green 
ring near the apex. Scape lying on the ground when the fruit is ripe. 
Fruit $ to 1 inch long, herbaceous, turbinate-oblong-ovoid. Seeds 
about the size of sweet-pea seeds, with a soft whitish testa. 
L. estivum in its typical form is less often met with in cultivation 
than the subspecies L. Hernandezii of Cabassedes, a native of southern 
Europe, which frequently does duty for L. (eu-)xstivum in botanic 
gardens, and is sold by seedsmen under the name of L. pulchellum. 
This form flowers from three weeks to a month earlier than C. eu- 
estivum and has the flowers smaller, little more than } inch long, the 
perianth segments more incurved, so that the perianth is somewhat 
ovoid, and after flowering urceolate. 
Summer Snowflake. 
French, Nivéole d’été. German, Sommer-Knotenblume. 
SPECIES I—LEUCOIUM VERNUM. Lim. 
Pirate MDVI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCLXII. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2141. 
I. C. Mansel, in Seemann’s Journ. Bot. 1866, p. 209. 
Erinosma vernum, Herb. Kunth, Enum. Plant. Vol. V. p. 474. Parl. Fl. Ital. Vol. 
II. p. 82. 
Nivaria verna, Monch. Meth. p. 280. 
Leaves broadly linear-lorate, very slightly channelled, green, not 
glaucous, appearing in spring with or sometimes after the flowers. 
Spathe 1-valved, split or notched at the apex, usually longer than the 
pedicel. Flower solitary, or rarely two together. Perianth sezments 
rhombic-oval, connivent into a wide bellshaped cup. Style clavate- 
cylindrical with a conical apex. Seeds soft, white, ovoid, with a large 
prominent caruncule at the chalaza. 
On the banks and sides of a thick hedgerow on one of the decli- 
vities of the greenstone heights in the neighbourhood of Bridport, 
Dorset, recorded by Mr. J. Hardy of Manchester, and found in 
abundance by Mr. I. C. Mansel. It is “stated to have been dis- 
covered near Bicester” (“Gardener’s Magazine of Botany” for July 
1836. Cyb. Brit. vol. ii. p. 449). 
England. Perennial. Early Spring. 
Bulb flowering when the size of a large filbert. Leaves distichous, 
slightly channelled above and bluntly keeled below, recurved, tapering 
slightly from beyond the middle towards the apex; in the Dorsetshire 
plant attaining a considerable length before the flower expands, but in 
