AND THEIR CULTL'KE. 



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filaments, 18 to 21 lines long ; anthers, 3 or 4 lines long ; pollen red ; 

 ovary, 7 or 8 lines long-, half the length of the style ; capsule, 1^ inches 

 long, obovoid, obtusely six-angled, umbilicated at the top. Central 

 Europe, and South-eastern Scandinavia, flowering in our gardens 

 auiongst the earhest, blooming in June, before Crocemn and iJavu- 

 ricuiu. — Latifoliuni, Link, PJnum., i., :j21, is a large-growing garden 

 form with broad leaves. — Humile, Miller, Diet. No. 4, is a small form, 

 mth narrow leaves. — Puhesccns, Bernh., Kunth, Enum., iv., 2G5, is 

 probably a garden form with peduncles thickly covered wiih cobweb- 

 like down. For its various forms, see Parkins, Parad., 38. 



Under the head Bulbiferum (rathrr than under the liead of Davuricum, as ]\[r. Baker, 

 does) -Nve are inclined to class tlie numerous garden varieties, mostly raised from seed, 

 some of which are very beautiful, generally called Uuihcllatuiii ; they ;ire all early 

 flowering. The true type we liold to be a tall growing form, 3 — 4 feet high, with 

 crowded large dark green lanceolate foliage, bearing bulblets in the axils (like the Tiger 

 group), and liaving an umljel of large broad ])etalled cup-shaped flowers, of a rich diTrk 

 cherry nd colour, having an orange blotch, and a few black dots in the cent7-e. 



The seedling forms, classed as Umhdhdum, do not as a rule carry bulblets in the 

 axils, but should their flower heads be cut off early in the season, .bulblets are often 

 formed at the scar and in the axils of the then terminal leaves. 



Some of the best seedling forms are Pimctcduni and ImniarAilatum (without spots), also, 

 known as Riihcas and Vulcan by some growers, these are tall, strong-gi'owiu" f(jrms, ve-ay,- 

 nearly approaching the type, with large, well-formed, cup-shaped, richly coloured flowsrg.. . 



Ercctum and liicolor, dwarfer forms, with few or no spots, yellow centre, and ]dfc!-vi 

 cheny-coloured tips, very vivid. 



Sai)pho, a dwarf, broad-petalled, sjTnmetrical flower, heavily spotted and i;ithh\. 

 coloured. 



Atrosaiijuineurn and lacoinparahlc, the very dark tiiited, dwarf forms, remark;it)l4 for - 

 the intensity of their colouring ; generally much admired. 



24. L. Croceum (Fuchs.)— Chaix. in Yill. Dclph., i., 322 ; Kunth,. 

 Enum., iv., 265 and 075; Fisch. and Mey., Ind. Sem., vi., 5(3; Gran. 

 Flor. France, iii., [82.— Bulbifcntiu, DC., Fl. France, iii., 202-;: Bot. . 

 Mag., t. oG (the figure much above the 

 natural size). — Aurcum, Parkinson, Para- 

 disus, 37, t. o. — Bulb, globose, perennial ; 

 scales, large, ovate-lance-shaped, not nar- 

 rowed at the middle; first shoots, broad, 

 obtuse, tinged with red; stem, 3 to 6 feet 

 high, stout, furrowed, green, spotted with 

 purple on the upper part, more or less 

 covered with cobweb-like down ; leaves, 

 50 to 100 in number, scattered, very 

 close, patent, or the lower ones slightly 

 squarrose, linear, the lower ones 3 or 4 

 inches long, 3 or 4 lines broad, three to 

 five nerved, sessile, smooth, firm, never 

 bearing l)ulbils in the axils; flowers, in 

 wild specimens, often solitary, in cultivated plants often 10 to 20 in 

 number, arranged in a deltoid raceme or umbel ; pedicels, ascending, 

 2 or 3 inches long, covered with white cobweb-like do\\ui ; perianth. 



The Orange Lily (Z. Croccura). 



