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lately recovered from seeds which were sent from the Cape to Eng- 

 land and Holland. It usually blows in August and September. 



. In the fourth species the roots are numerous, round, and collected 

 into a tuber crowned with bristles; the leaves from the root many, 

 firm, a fool long, carinated and grassy: the scape erect, eighteen 

 inches high, firm: the spike loose, ten-flowered, and the peduncles 

 simple: the flower two inches wide; petals in two ranks: the inner 

 widest, petiolate and pure white: the outer have a green line run- 

 ning along beneath. It is a native of Italy, c. 



The fifth species has the root fascicled, with fleshy fibres. It has 

 the corolla of the while Lily: the leaves grassy, soft, broader than 

 two lines, the radical ones very long: the scape a foot or eighteen 

 inches high : the spike thin-set with spreading flowers, on simple 

 peduncles: the stipules coloured, ovate-lanceolate: the corolla above 

 an inch in diameter, gradually widening; petals tender and white; 

 ovate, thin, lanceolate, with a reflex point, which is thicker and has 

 a green dot: they are marked with lines, and sweet-scented: the sta- 

 mens almost as long as the petals, with weak filaments. In France 

 it is called St. Bruno's Lily. 



There are two varieties of this, one with a flower-stalk more than 

 a foot and half high, the other with the stems much the same: the 

 flowers are much larger in the former, and there is a greater number 

 upon each stalk than in the latter. It is a native of Switzerland and 

 Savoy. 



The sixth species differs from the seventh by rising into a stem 

 and branches, by having the leaves greener, longer, and narrower, 

 with a firmer pulp, and a viscid juice flowing copiously from them 

 when cut, of a greenish yellow colour: the root is fibrous, and not 

 only the stem, but even the branches put out fibres, which hang 

 down, and when they reach the ground strike root. It is a native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, and was formerly known by the name of 

 Onion-leaved Aloe. 



The seventh has broad, flat, pulpy leaves, resembling those of 

 some sorts of Aloe, and was formerly, on that account called Aloe 



