AND THEIR CULTUKE. 



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distinct in imported specimens, cannot be trusted as a distinguishing 

 character, since cultivated bulbs of Wasliingtonianum proper are nearly 

 identical with those of Purpureum, and even the points of difference 

 between the native bulbs of both plants are not more than can readily 

 be accounted for as being due to difference of soil and climate.* 

 Hwnboldlii, although very different to Washingtonianum in its flower, 

 has an ovoid, oblique bulb, somewhat similar in shape to the smaller 

 figure, but occasionally it approaches the rhizomatous habit of 

 Wasliingtonianum, as seen in the larger figure. 



SUB-GENUS III. 



ARCHELIRION. 



L. Tigrinum.- The bulbs of this variable plant are, according to Mr. 

 Baker, 4f perennial, globose, with oblong, lance-shaped, acute scales. '' 



3 i 



(1.) L. Tigrinum Sincnse (China and Japan), natural size ; large cultivated bulb. 

 (2. ) L. Lcichtlinii, two-thirds natural size. (3. ) Small bulb of the same ; colour, yellowish 

 white, t 



The specimen selected for me by the Colchester Bulb Company was, 

 as shown in the engraving, as large as an Orange, and of a similar 



* 1 can scarcely agree to this. 



t The large figure of Lcichtlinii is true, but fig. No. 3 is not so correct, the tip, or 

 young growth, is in reality very slender, like a small spike, in the figure it is triangular, 

 with a broad base ; the scales ought to be fewer, broader, and the bulb flatter at the 

 aper. The figure given reminds me more of Concolor. 



