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There is a variety with smaller roots; the leaves are not near so 

 long, have not more than half the breadth, and are of a dark green 

 colour: the flower-stalk is a foot and half high, naked and com- 

 pressed, without furrows ; at the top are two or three yellow flowers, 

 which are nearer the bell-shape than the others, and stand on shorter 

 peduncles. 



The second species is a much larger plant than the first, and the 

 roots spread and increase much more; the roots have very strong 

 fleshy fibres, to which hang large oblong tubers : the leaves are near 

 three feet long, hollowed like those of the former, turning back to- 

 ward the top: the flower-stalks are as thick as a man's finger, and 

 rise near four feet high; they are naked, without joints, and branch- 

 ing at the top, where are several large copper-coloured flowers, shaped 

 like those of the Red Lily, and as large. These flowers never conti- 

 nue longer than one, but there is a succession of flowers on the 

 same plants for a fortnight or three weeks. It flowers in July and 

 August. 



Culture. These plants are easily increased by planting the off- 

 sets taken from the roots in autumn in any situation, as they are ex- 

 tremely hardy. They afterwards require no other culture, but to 

 keep them clean from weeds, and to allow them room, that their 

 roots may spread. 



The first sort may also be increased by seeds, which should be 

 sown in autumn. The plants come up in the following spring, and 

 these will flower in two years. 



A moist soil and shady situation are the best suited to their 

 growth ; their size, and the great increase of their roots, especially in 

 the second sort, render them most proper for large gardens and plan- 

 tations, where they produce much variety and effect. 



