HYBRIDS BETWEEN THE COMMON LILAC, &c. 301 
is probably only an accidental variation, in the purplish-red colour of its 
flowers. 
3. The bi-coloured Varin Lilac (S. dubia bicolor), fig. 115, called also 
S. rothomagensis bicolor, and S. rothomagensis alba, with flowers of a 
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Fig. 113.—SyYRINGA PERSICA ALBA. 
slaty-grey with bluish violet throat: this is a fixed dimorphic form or 
“sport.”’ In 1850 M. Victor Lemoine found at Noveant (old department 
of the Moselle), on the property of M. Guerber, an ordinary Varin Lilac, 
a branch of which bore nearly white flowers. It is this branch which, 
crafted and multiplied, was put into commerce by M. Lemoine under the 
name of S. rothomagensis bicolor. 
