AND THEIR CULTURE. 157" 



filaments, 1 8 to 21 lines long ; anthers, 3 or 4 lines long ; pollen red ; 

 ovary, 7 or 8 lines long, half the length of the style ; capsule, 1 inches 

 long, obovoid, obtusely six-angled, umbilicated at the top. Central 

 Europe, and South-eastern Scandinavia, flowering in our gardens 

 amongst the earliest, blooming in June, before Croceum and Davu- 

 ricum. Lairfolium, Link, Enum., i., 321, is a large-growing garden*, 

 form with broad leaves. Humile, Miller, Diet. No. 4, is a small form,, 

 with narrow leaves. Pubesccns, Bernh., Kunth, Enum., iv., 265, is. 

 probably a garden form with peduncles thickly covered with cobweb- 

 like down. For its various forms, see Parkins, Parad., 38. 



Under the head Bidbifcrum (rather than under the head of Davuricum, as Mr. Baker,, 

 does) we are inclined to class the numerous garden varieties, mostly raised from seed, 

 some of which are very beautiful, generally called Umbcllatum ; they tire all early 

 flowering. The true type we hold to be a tall growing form, 34 feet high, with 

 crowded large dark green lanceolate foliage, bearing bnlblets in the axils (like the Tiger- 

 group), and having an umbel of large broad petalled cup-shaped flowers, of a rich dark" 

 cherry red colour, having an orange blotch, and a few black dots in the centre. 



The seedling forms, classed as Umbellatum, do not as a rule carry bulblets in the- 

 axils, but should their flower heads be cut oft' early in the season, bulblets are often 

 formed at the scar and in the axils of the then terminal leaves. 



Some of the best seedling forms are Punctatum and Immaculatum (without spots), also 

 known as llubcns and Vulcan by some growers, these are tall, strong-growing forms, very, 

 nearly approaching the type, Avith large, well-formed, cup-shaped, richly coloured flowers. 



Ercctum and Bicolor, dwarfer forms, with few or no spots, yellow centre, and rich, 

 cherry- coloured tips, very vivid. 



Sappho, a dwarf, broad-petalled, symmetrical flower, heavily spotted and richly 

 coloured. 



Atrosanguincum and Incomparable, the very dark tinted, dwarf forms, remarkable for 

 the intensity of their colouring ; generally much admired. 



24. L. Crocenm (Fuchs.) Chaix. in Vill. Delph., i., 322 ; Kunth, 

 Enum., iv., 265 and 675; Fisch. and Mey., Ind. Sem., vi., 56; Gran. 

 Flor. France, iii., [82.Bulbife'rum, DC., FJ. France, iii., 202; Bot. 

 Mag., t. 36 (the figure much above the 

 natural size). Aureum, Parkinson, Para- 

 disus, 37, t. 3. Bulb, globose, perennial; 

 scales, large, ovate-lance-shaped, not nar- 

 rowed at the middle ; first shoots, broad, 

 obtuse, tinged with red ; stem, 3 to 6 feet 

 high, stout, furrowed, green, spotted with 

 purple 011 the upper part, more or less 

 covered with cobweb-like down ; leaves, 

 50 to 100 in number, scattered, very 

 close, patent, or the lower ones slightly 

 squarrose, linear, the lower ones 3 or 4 

 inches long, 3 or 4 lines broad, three to 

 five nerved, sessile, smooth, linn, never 

 bearing bulbils in the axils ; flowers, in The Orange Lily (L. Groceum}* 

 wild specimens, often solitary, in cultivated plants often 10 to 20 in 

 number, arranged in a deltoid raceme or umbel ; pedicels, ascending, 

 2 or 3 inches long, covered with white cobweb-like down ; perianth^. 



