AND THEIR CULTURE. 159 



It flowers in our gardens in July along with Croeann, and after 

 Bidbiferuin* UmhcUahtm, of most gardens^ is a luxuriant garden 

 form of Davuricum. For its varietieSj see Kegel, Gartenfl.j 1872^ 

 295 



2(3. L. Elegans.—Thnnh., Mem. Acad. Petr., iii., 203, t. 3, fig. 2.— 

 BuUnferum, Tliunb., Linn. Trans., ii., 333. — Pliiladelyihiexim, Tliunb., 

 Fl. Jap., 135. — Thnnheniianum, Scliultes fil., Syst. Veg., vii., 415 ; 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1839, t. 38 ; Maund. Bot., t. loS ; Eegel., Garteufl. 

 1872, 296. — Awantiacum, Paxt. Mag., vii., 127, witli a figure. — 

 Bulbt like tliose of Bulbifemm and Crocewn ; stem, about a foot 

 high, smooth, or slightly covered with cobweb-like down, or pilose, 

 stout, furrowed ; leaves, 20 to 30 in number, ascending, scattered, 

 firm, deep gTeen, smooth, distinctly five to seven nerved, the lower 

 ■ones 3 to 4 inches long, the upper ones shorter, 6 to 12 lines broad 

 in the middle, not bearing bulbils in the axils ; perianth, usually 

 solitary, 3 to 3^ inches long, when fully expanded, 5 or 6 inches broad, 

 of an orange-red colour ; segments oblong, spathulate, obtuse, scarcely 

 dotted, much less lamellated and papillose than those of Daintricum, 

 outer ones 12 to 13 lines, and inner ones 15 to 18 lines broad in the 

 middle ; groove, distinclv excavated, 8 or 9 lines long, v,'ith pilose 

 edges; filaments, H to 2 inches long; anthei'S, 4 or 5 lines long; 

 ovary, 1 inch long, half the length of the style; capsule, obovoid, 

 2 inches long, sub-acutely six-angled, one half longer than its breadth. 

 Japan ; it flowers in our gardens in the beginning of July, under 

 veiy many forms, of which the following are the most notable: — 



Var. 1, Brevifolinni, Baker and Dyer, " Gard. Chron.," 1872, 

 1,856. — Alternans, hort. ; leaves, broader and shorter, the lower ones 

 2 to 2^- inches, the upper ones 1 to \^ inches long, all 7 to 9 lines 

 broad, and of a deep green colour ; perianth, less open, of a pale red 

 colour throughout, with a few black dots at the bottom : filaments 

 and style a little longer. 



Yar. 2, Bicolor, Moore, "Floral Mag.," t. lOi^.—Tldim, hort. Sie- 

 bold. — Aurantiacian, hort. Krelage; stem, scarcely a foot high; leaves, 

 about 40 in number, narrower, the lower ones 4 to 6 lines broad ; 

 perianth, 3 to Sjr inches long; segments, broader than in any other 

 variety (the inner ones 18 to 21 lines broad), with yellow centre, red 

 sides, and a few dots near the base. 



* It was originally figtirod in the Botanical Magazine.under the name of rciinsijlcanicum, 

 under the supposition that it came from America ; but the mistake was connected in the 

 volume for 1809, and the plant re-named Davn.ricurn, after the region of Siberia in 

 ■which it is most abundant. Tliis name, Laxurirum, has priority over SiKdahilc, which 

 only dates from 18"-:1. 



t "We have been unaljlc to obtain a satisfactory woodtait of bulbs of the true Thua- 

 henjiannni type ; they are in shape and size much like those of Philndd^ilikum on 

 page 102, but the numerous scales are tliinner, flatter, broader at the base, and more 

 acute at the tip than are those of FhlUiddithkum. The bulb of Thtinhcrrjiavum 

 S'plendens, i)age 10r>, approaches in form and size those of the UnihcUatura grouji, and is 

 altogether a coarser bulb than that of the true Thunhcrgianum type. 



