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disappointment by comparison -with the seductive plate in 

 Elwes' Monograph; but this dainty lily could surely not 

 be despised by anyone. With broader, clear-green leaves, 

 it is a match in habit for L. temiifolium, as that species 

 grows here, noble and dainty, far ampler and more splendid 

 than it is often seen in England. It attains some 15 inches 

 in height, and carries one, two, or tliree pendant Martagon 

 flowers of a cold ivory or paper-white, waxy in texture, 

 and freckled rather unnecessarily with maroon along the 

 inner margins of their segments. The flowers are larger 

 and fatter than those of L. tenui folium , and I find it an 

 attractive beautj'-, as it hangs glacial and pure amid the 

 scrub. Its site, soil, and habit suggest little difficult}' in 

 its culture. But it can never have the brilliancy of L. 

 temiifolium as the Thibetans grow it; for they ram a 

 handful of bulbs at haphazard into the hard mud of their 

 flat roofs, and there above the eave sprouts a living pyramid 

 of fire from year to year." 



The bulbs received by the Royal Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, grew well and produced a lily which was figured, 

 and the figure was sent to Mr. Grove for his opinion. Mr. 

 Grove identified it as L. Duchartrei, Franch. It had a 

 white ground-colour suff*used with rose, and the white hair 

 tufts in the axils of the leaves were more or less absent. 

 With its identification as L. Duchartrei I am quite in accord. 

 Plants believed to be of the same gathering were cultivated 

 by Mr. F. C. Stern, at Goring-by-sea, Sussex. I have a 

 figure made from a fresh specimen of this lily. It corre- 

 sponds closely to Mr. Farrer's description of a cold ivory- 

 white, and the leaf axils are conspicuously white-beiarded. 

 The flowers seem to be somewhat smaller than usual in 

 typical L. Duchartrei. Unless Mr. Farrer erred in the 

 field, we have only one lily to deal with. The colour 

 differences are at most only varietal. The tufts of hairs 

 in the axils occur in several series and are not constant. 

 In any case the Paris type of L. Duchartrei shows these 

 hairs. The small size of the flower in L. Farreri would 

 appear to be due to cultural conditions. I cannot see 

 more in L. Farreri than a form of L. Duchartrei at most. 

 In this conclusion Mr. Grove and Mr. Wilson concur. 



