AND THEIR CULTURE. 



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Bloomerianum Ocellatum were small, plump, and purplish, profusely 

 dotted with, purple, as in Brownii. In one importation of Bloomeri- 

 anum Ocellatum there were about half the bulbs with white scales 

 and half with purple ones, from which it was at the time inferred 

 that there were two varieties, but, on flowering, both sets gave 

 flowers precisely similar in colour. If the figure of the bulb of 

 Columbianum were enlarged four or five times it would stand very 

 well for that of Humboldtii* 



L. Martagon. Another extremely variable plant, bearing white, 

 red, purple, nearly black, and yellowish flowers on conical spikes, 

 the bulbs of all the forms being of a bright yellow colour. Mr. 

 Baker describes the bulb of this species as being " ovoid, 1J to 2 

 inches long, yellowish, perennial, with very numerous narrow scales." 

 Our figure of L. Carniolicum Albanicum shows the general contour 

 and size of the bulbs of Martagon. 



L. Colnmlianum (America), cultivated bulb, 

 natural size ; colour, yellowish white. 



L. Carniolicum Albanicum (Europe) ; natural 

 size ; cultivated bulb. 



L. Carniolicum. The bulb of this plant is of the, size of a duck's egg, 

 globose, or slightly pointed, the scales being broad, lance-shaped, 

 and to | inches in breadth. Sometimes, however, we find enormous 



* Occasionally we find bulbs of Humboldtii elongated, and in shape resembling the 

 larger figure given, on page 98, of Washingtonianum. 



