ADDISONIA 65 
(Plate 33) 
CHIONODOXA LUCILIAE GIGANTEA 
Large-flowered Glory-of-the-Snow 
Native of Asia Minor 
Family LILIACEAE Lity Family 
Chionodoxa gigantea Ware, Garden 35: 300. 1889. 
Chionodoxa grandiflora Ware;  W. Robinson, Garden 37: 321. 1890. 
Chionodoxa Luciliae gigantea ‘‘ D.K.” Garden 42: 210. 1892 
Chionodoxa Luciliae grandiflora ‘‘ D.K.” Garden 42: 211. 1392, 
A small herb, seven to nine inches high. From a brown-coated, 
oval bulb about an inch long, arises a slender stem bearing two 
long and about one inch wide, enfolding the stem at its base and 
spreading out above. The stem bears at its summit a raceme of 
sually two, or rarely three flowers. The flowers measure nearly 
aa inches across, and are light blue shading to a white throat, into 
which run dark lines in the center of each perianth-segment. 
six perianth-segments are about one inch long, ovate- lanceolate, 
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Six yellow anthers are borne on white filaments, which are dilated, 
and prominent in the throat when the anthers have disappeared. 
The ovary is small and three-celled. 
The glory-of-the-snow is a spring- flowering bulb which accom- 
panies the snowdrop, squill and crocus in March and early April, 
and with the latter two furnishes garden color for those months. 
The variety gigantea is one of the many forms of Chionodoxa 
Luciliae Boiss., from the mountains of Asia Minor and Crete. The 
variety differs from the species principally in the number of flowers 
borne on a single scape, having usually two or rarely three, while 
C. Luciliae has five or more; also in the color and larger size of 
the flowers. 
This plant was introduced into English gardens from Smyrna 
in 1887. Bulbs of it were collected in the mountains above Allah 
Cheir (the ancient Philadelphia) by Edward Whittall (see Garden 
35: 367), and distributed in England. 
Our illustration was made from a specimen grown in the New 
York Botanical Garden, where several plots bloom profusely each 
spring-time. It is quite hardy, and its blooms appear uniformly 
a glistening carpet of light blue. The bulb is found exceptionally 
far below the surface of the soil, where the plant has been long 
