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The sixth species has a very small round bulb: the leaves three 

 or four, long, slender, grass-like, dark green: the stem very slender, 

 round, a foot and half high: at the top the flowers are collected in a 

 spike sitting close to the stalk, each having a thin, dry spathe, which 

 covers the capsule after the flower is fallen. The corolla is pure 

 white, and small. 



The seventh species has a bulb the size of a hazel nut: the leaves 

 three or four, many-nerved, upright, smooth, half the length of the 

 scape: the scape round, smooth, upright, many-spiked, from a foot to 

 two feet in height: the branches alternate, capillary, upright, a finger's 

 length: the flowers on the scape and branches in spikes, on a flexuose 

 rachis of a finger's length : the spathes submembranaceous and 

 awned. The flowers appear in May. 



It varies with the corollas yellow and violet, of one colour. 



The eighth species has the bulb double the size of a hazel nut : 

 the leaves three, four, or five, many-nerved, half the length of th e 

 scape: the scape usually simple, seldom many-spiked, round, up- 

 right, from a span to a foot high and more: branches filiform, 

 upright, or spreading very much: flowers in terminating spikes, on 

 a flexuose rachis: spathes membranaceous, gray at the base, brown 

 at the tip, somewhat jagged: the corolla, above the mouth of the 

 tube, has a dusky spot at the base of the border. 



According to Miller, the stalk is slender, stiff, a foot and half 

 long, naked to the top, where it is terminated by a round bunch of 

 flowers, each enclosed in an oblong spathe, which is permanent, and 

 splits open on one side: the flowers are on short peduncles, deep 

 yellow with a dark-purple bottom. It flowers in May and June. 



The ninth has the bulb a little larger than a hazel nut: the leaves 

 about five, reflex-subfalcate, many-nerved, from an inch to a finger's 

 length, half or one-third of the length of the scape: the scape simple, 

 round, or branched, somewhat flatted, flexuose, upright, smooth, 

 from a hand to a span in height: the branches spreading very much, 

 naked, like the scape: the bractes gray at the base, ferruginous at 

 the tip, slightly toothed and jagged: the flowers pointing one way, 

 handsome, bell-shaped, with a short tube, orange-coloured with a 



