224 BULBS AND TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 
Var. rubrum.—This was the first introduction, 
and was figured in Paxton’s Magazine of Botany for 
January, 1838, and described, in part, as follows: “A 
most magnificent species of Lily; ‘not only handsome’ 
(as Dr. Lindley observed, in the Botanical Register, 
Page 2,000) beyond all we before knew in gardens 
(among Lilies), on account of the clear, deep rose-color 
of its flowers, which seem all rugged with rubies and 
garnets, and sparkling with crystal points, but it has 
the sweet fragrance of the Petunia.” Much confusion 
exists in regard to the variety names, some dealers call- 
ing it Rubrum, others Roseum, many sending it out 
under both names. Having grown many thousands of 
the supposed different varieties, we have never been 
uble to note sufficient difference in color to warrant the 
two names. It is true, that in a bed of either, one will 
find some darker, some lighter, the cause of which seems 
to us to be, that it is a seedling and intermediate between 
Purpuratum and Punctatum. As the former is truly 
represented by the colored illustration in Pazton’s Mag- 
azine of Botany, and the one we designate as true 
Rubrum, while the latter is also figured in the same vol- 
ume, and is as perfect an illustration of the flower as it is 
possible for the lithographic art to produce, and it is there 
called Roseum (synonym Punctatum). Therefore the 
variety sold as Purpuratum might, with propriety, be 
called Rubrum. Punctatum was, from its introduction, 
called Roseum. Seedlings from these varieties would 
very naturally produce, not only the two varieties under 
consideration, but many others that have been honored 
with varietal names. See Engraving, Page 223. 
Var. roseum (syn. punctatum).—Paxton describes 
this as follows: ‘‘In the exquisite loveliness of its flow- 
ers, their superior size, and the stronger and more robust 
habits of the plant, this charming variety almost outvies 
the splendid species (LZ. speciosum). 'The dazzling bril- 
