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double and single varieties, bearing blue, red, purple, and 
white flowers. Like other biennials, it may either be 
sown where it is to remain, any time after midsummer, 
or may be sown in beds in Spring for transplanting. 
Rotundifolia (Harebell) is the most beautiful of our native 
species. Some of the species are grown in France and 
Italy as esculent roots. All succeed well in any good 
soil, and are propagated freely by seeds or division. 
PANCRATIUM. 
AY ELL known through the South as “Spider Lily” 
“* and very plentiful. They are Lily-like bulbous 
plants, with long strap-like leaves, mostly deciduous, a 
few only being persistent. The flowers are white or 
greenish-white, produced in an umbel on a solid scape 
about two feet high. Thespecies are found in the South 
of Europe, North Africa, Syria, Arabia, and in several of 
the more Southern States. Carolinianum is common in 
most of the salt marshes from South Carolina to Flor- 
ida. Chapman, in his ‘‘Southern Flora,’’ makes no 
distinction in the two species. They should be grown 
in light loam and leaf mould, and allowed a season of 
rest. They are propagated by offsets. 
LAPAGERIA. 
ANHIS was named after Josephim Lapagerie, wife of 
= Napoleon I. This will stand the Winters in all the 
Gulf States, and ought to be more freely grown than it 
is. Rosea, and its white variety, are unquestionably the 
most beautiful greenhouse twining plants yet introduced. 
The stems are round, branching, and will grow to almost 
