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their development is better under partial shade. They are 

 beautiful border or rockwork ornaments, and excellent for 

 fringing the margins of beds of shrubs, where they may have 

 some chance of shelter from rough wind. They are propagated 

 by division of the roots, but they do not increase rapidly, and 

 should be disturbed as little as possible for that purpose when 

 they are doing well. They thrive best, and increase most 

 abundantly, in deep peat and loam. The best time to divide is 

 immediately after the leaves decline. 



T. grandiflorum {Lai-ge-flowered T.) — This is the handsomest 

 of the family, and a very beautiful as well as singular plant. It 

 grows from 6 to i8 inches high. The leaves are three in num- 

 ber on each stem, arranged opposite each other at the summit ; 

 they are broadly egg-shaped, dark olive-green, and conspicu- 

 ously ribbed and veined. The flower, one to each stem, springs 

 from the centre of the leaves on a short stalk, and is supported 

 in a slightly pendulous position; it consists of three green 

 sepals and three pure-white petals. They open in April, May, 

 and June. 



T. pendulum (Pendulous-floivered T.) — Similar in aspect to 

 the last, this differs from it chiefly in the leaves being more 

 sharply rounded at the base, and more abruptly sharp-pointed. 

 The flowers are white, but more decidedly drooping, and the 

 petals are broader at the base, and are more acutely pointed. 

 The plant grows from 6 to 9 inches high, and the flowers begin 

 to open with those of the Large-flowered T., but do not con- 

 tinue so long. 



T. sessile {Stalkless-flowered T.) — Not less interesting and 

 singular, this species is less beautiful than either of the last two. 

 The leaves are oval, tapering gradually to both ends from the 

 centre. The flower sits stalkless and erect on the top of the 

 stem between the leaves. The sepals are spreading, the petals 

 erect, not opening wide as in the two previously, described. 

 They appear about the same time, and the plant grows about 

 the height of the last species. 



Triteleia uniflora, syns. Leucocoryne uniflora and Milla 

 uniflora (07ie-floiue?'cd T.) — So far as I am aware, this is the 

 only species of this handsome genus of bulbous plants that has 

 been proved capable of culture in the open ground. They are 

 American plants, mostly from the southern parts of that country; 

 and there are four or five species, including the present subject, 

 in cultivation. This is one of the handsomest. It produces 

 linear flaccid spreading leaves about 9 or 10 inches long. The 

 flower-stalks are about the length of the leaves and erect. The 

 flowers tubular, with a broad-spreading limb divided in 6 



