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TRITONIA 



TROLLIUS 



nently if given protection of mulch in cold climates. As 

 far north as New York and Mass., however, they are usu- 

 ally hest wintered in damp (not wet) earth indoors. The 

 best known kinds are T. erocosmcsflora and T. Pottsii. 

 Mostof the Latin names in catalogues belong to these, as 

 sulphurea, Tigridia pyramidalis, 

 grandiflora, elegans, floriounda. 

 To gardeners, Tritonias are usually 

 known as Montbretias. Garden Tri- 

 tonias grow 1 ft. or more tall, pro- 

 ducing several to many showy flow- 

 ers of a yellow, orange or red color, 

 and bearing several stiffish linear 

 or sword-shaped 

 leaves. Corms 

 small, covered 

 with strongly 

 reticulated 

 sheaths or tu- 

 nics. The peri- 

 anth is tubular, 

 with a spread- 



ing limb of obovate or oblong, 

 nearly equal segments. The 

 stamens are 3, inserted in the 

 perianth-tube, with mostly ver- 

 satile anthers and filiform fila- 

 ments. The pistil has a 3- 

 loculed ovary, filiform 3- 

 hranched style, ripening into a 

 3-vaIved capsule. 



a. Perianth-segments obovate. 

 crocata, Ker-Gawl. Slender, 

 simple or branched from near 2581. Tritonia crocosmxflora (X K) 

 the base, bearing few fls. in 



loose 1-sided racemes: fl. about 2 in. across, tawny yel- 

 low or orange-red, the stamens one - third the length 

 of the perianth-limb. Cape Colony. B.M. 184 (as Ixia 

 crocata). Gn. 54:1181. -Var. miniata, Baker (T. min- 

 iata, Ker-Gawl. ), has light red fls. B.M. 609. There 

 are color varieties, as purpurea, coccinea, aurantiaca. 

 These plants are usually treated as greenhouse bulbs 

 in the North. 



cemes, and few or several firm narrow lvs.: H. about 

 1 in. long, bright yellow tinged red, the tube broadly 

 funnelform and twice longer than the oblong unequal 

 ascending segments, the stamens about half the height 

 of the limb. Natal, Transvaal, etc. B.M. 6722. G.C. 

 III. 7:301, showiug how the corms form one above the 

 other. 



crocosmaeflora, Lemoine (T. Pottsii x pollen of Cro- 

 cosmia. aurea [Fig. 582, Vol. I] ) . Fig. 2581. Slender, 

 h branching, erect plant 3—1 ft. high, with several 

 or many sword-sbaped lvs., and loose, more or less dis- 

 tichous racemes: fls. 2 in. across, orange-crimson, with 

 a slender curved tube nearly or quite equaling the ob- 

 long spreading segments. RiH. 1882:124. Gn. 25, p. 363; 

 31:598. G.M. 36:484, — Crocosma aurea was introduced 

 into England) in 1847, and Tritonia Pottsii (into Scot- 

 land) in 1877 by G. H. Potts. Victor Lemoine, Nancy, 

 France, hybridized the two, and the product, T. crocos- 

 mnflora, bloomed in 1880. This hybrid is now the most 

 popular of Tritonias (or Montbretias). 



T. aurea, Pappe. See Crocosmia aurea. — T. crispa, Ker- 

 Gawl. Fl. whitish or pale pink, with oblong obtuse segments, 

 and with crisped lvs. B.M. 678.— T. deifSta.'Ker- 

 Gawl. Differs from T. crocata in having a purple- 

 black blotch on the claw of the 3 outer segments. 

 B.M. 622.— T. flam, Ker-Gawl. Fls. bright yellow, 

 the segments oblong and the 3 lower ones with a 

 callus in the throat: lvs. very short. B.R. 9:747.- 

 T. hyalhia, Baker. Differs from T. crocata in hav- 

 ing tiie perianth-segments narrowed at the lower 

 part into a claw with hyaline margin. B.M. 704, 

 as T. fenestralis.— T. lineata, Ker-Gawl. Fls. white 

 or pink, with short oblong segments and protrud- 

 ing anthers, of the shape of gladiolus flowers. B. 

 M. 4S7 las Gladiolus Hneatus). — T. scillaris, Baker. 

 Small and slender: ns. pink, with wide-flaring nar- 

 row segments, ixia-like. B.M. 629 (as Ixia poly- 

 steehya). — T. securigera, Ker-Gawl. Lvs. short: 

 fls. red or copper -colored, the 3 lower segments 

 with a callus on the claw. B.M. 383 (as Gladiolus 

 securiger).— T. undulata. Baker. Lvs. short and 

 narrow, mucli crisped: ns. pink, with oblong equal 

 segments. B.M. 599 (as Ixia crispa).— T. vMdis. 

 Ker-Gawl. Lvs. plane or crisped, linear: fls. green, 

 with nearly equal oblanceolate segments. B.M. 

 1275 — T. Wttsani, Baker. Lvs. very narrow linear; 

 racemes simple or forked, lax, few-fld.: fls. white, 

 tinged with purple, the segments obovate-cuspidate. 

 L. H. B. 

 TRGLLIUS (old German trot, something 

 round ; in allusion to the shape of the flow- 

 ers. ) ffanunculacece. Globe Flower. A 

 group of neat, hardy, herbaceous perennials 

 of about 10 species, mostly found in marshy 

 places, of the north temperate zone. Roots 

 fibrous, thickened: lvs. palmately divided or 

 lobed: fls. large, solitary, yellowish or pur- 

 plish; petals 5 to many, small, unguiculate, 

 with a nectariferous pit at the base of the 

 blade: stamens many: carpels 5 to many, ses- 

 sile, many-ovuled : follicles in ahead. Plants 

 of this genus grow freely in a mixture of 

 sandy loam and peat, and in rather damp 

 situations. They may be increased either by 

 seeds, or by dividing the old plants; but the 

 young plants grow slowly at first, and will not 

 flower before the second season from seed. 



AA. Perianth-segments oolong. 



rdsea, Klatt. Tall and branched, with short linear lvs. 

 and loose 6-15-fld. racemes: fl. bright red, with oblong 

 segments (the three lower ones yellow blotched at the 

 base) as long as the tube and anthers just protruding 

 from the tube. Cape Colony. B.M. 7280. -Can be left 

 in the open as far north as Mass., if well protected, but 

 are usually safer if taken up. 



Pdttsii, Benth. {Monthr'etia Pditsii, Baker). Fig. 25R0. 

 Strong, branching plant 2-4 ft. tall, with several lax ra- 



A. True petals shorter than the stamens. 



B. Plant with true stem, H to 2 ft.high..l. Iaxus 

 BB. Plant with scapes or scape-like stems 



seldom over S or 4 in. high 2. acaulis 



AA. True petals longer than the stamens. 

 B. Lvs. only B-parted: Ms. somewhat 

 lobed, cleft and toothed: sepals 



hardly spreading 3. Europaeus 



bb. it's, smaller, bronze-green ; Ifts. 

 more finely lobed, cleft and toothed: 

 sepals spreading 4. Asiaticu3 



laxuB, Salisb. Slender, weak stems, \i-2 ft. long, 

 somewhat ascending: radical and lower stem lvs. long- 

 er short-petioled : all the lvs. 5-7-parted; lfts. cuneate 

 and much cleft and toothed : fls. usually solitary, 1 to 2 

 in. across; sepals 5-7, entire or toothed at the end, more 

 spreading than the other species; petals many, much 

 shorter than the stamens: follicles U in. long, straight 



