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than the type and has more flowers 

 in the umbels (And. Bot. Hep. t. 

 163). It is undoubtedly one of the 

 finest and most free-flowering Xerines 

 in cultivation, and should prove to be 

 a valuable plant for market work if 

 grown in large numbers. 



N. elegaxis {X.flexuosa x A\ rosea), 

 — A fine hybrid with crimson flowers. 

 The variety coerulea has crimson 

 flowers tinted with blue, while alba 

 has pure white blossoms. 



N. filifolia. — Flowers eight to ten in 

 an umbel, on scapes 1 ft. high. 

 Petals deflexed, bright red, 1 in. long. 

 (Hot. ifag. t. 6547.) 



N. flexuosa.— In this species the 

 bright green leaves about 1 ft. long, 

 and sometimes roughened with 

 pustules on the face, appear at the 

 same time as the flowers, about Sep- 

 tember. The flexuose scape is 

 sometimes 2 to 3 ft. high, and bears 

 an umbel of ten to twenty pale pink 

 flowers with wavy petals 1 j ins. long. 

 (Bot. Reg. t. 172.) 



There are several varieties, such as 

 angiLstifolia,ha.y'v[\g very narrow leaves 

 (ReJ. Bot. t. 329); pulchella, leaves 

 firmer in texture than in the type, 

 scape not flexuose,. and flowers pale 

 pink with a rose - red keel to the 

 segments (Bot. Mag. t. 2407) ; alba, 

 with white flowers ; and Sandersoni, 

 with broader leaves and less wavy 

 petals. 



N. humilis. — This comes near K. 

 flexuosa, but is dwarfer in growth and 

 has narrower and more deeply 

 channelled leaves. About ten to 

 twenty pink or rose-red flowers with 

 deflexed petals are borne on slender 

 scajies 6 to 18 ins. high. (Bot. Mag. 

 t. 720 ; Red. I'd. t. 449.) 



N. Manselli (N. flexuosa x N. 

 FotliergiUi). — This fine hybrid com- 

 memorates Mr Mansell, a hybridist 

 of Guernsey. It has broader leaves 

 than other kinds, produced at the same 



time as the bright rosy flowers, in 

 November and December. The 

 scapes are about 2 ft. high, and the 

 umbels 6 ins. through, having from 

 twelve to eighteen blossoms with 

 recurved segments. (6-'ar<i., November 

 1899.) 



N. Meado-wrbanki (N. sarniensis x 

 X. FothergUli). — This seems to be 

 merely a form of X Fothergilli. 



N. Moorei. — Closely related to ^V. 

 curvifolia, but distinguished by its 

 bright green (not blue-green), slightly 

 twisted leaves, 9 to 12 ins. long and 

 ^ to I in. broad. Flowers bright 

 scarlet with wavy segments, and 

 borne six to nine in an umbel on 

 flattened scapes about 9 ins. high. 



N. pancratioides. — This species has 

 long narrow leaves, roundish in the 

 lower half. The scapes are about 

 2 ft. high, and bear umbels of 

 twelve to twenty white flowers, which 

 have small square bifid scales between 

 each of the filaments, as in Pancratium. 

 (Gard. Chron. 1891, x. 576.) 



N. pudica. — This species has narrow 

 blue-green leaves 8 to 9 ins. long, and 

 slender scapes 1 to U ft. high, 

 bearing umbels of ivory-white flowers 

 sometimes keeled with pink, the 

 petals being very slightly wavy (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5901). The variety Elwesi 

 has broader jleaves, more compact 

 umbels, and pale rose flowers of a 

 more substantial texture, and alba 

 has snow-white blossoms. X. Stnck- 

 landi is a hybrid between X. pudica 

 and X. curvifolia. 



N. sarniensis. — This is the 

 " Guernsey Lily " which has been 

 cultivated in the Channel Islands for 

 two hundred years. It has ovoid 

 bulbs li to 2 ins. in diameter, and 

 bright green narrow leaves developed 

 after the flowers. From ten to 

 twenty of these are borne in an 

 umbel on slender scapes 1 to U ft. 

 high in September. They are bright 



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