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is developed about а foot above the ground, and has 
a stout curved stalk clothed with large, boat-ahaped, 
overlapping, purplish- brown bracts, below which is 
& dense cluster of drooping unbranched tails, about 
afoot long, clothed with pale pink flowers. This is 
the first male inflorescence the plant has borne, the 
previous ones hitherto being female, less crowded, with 
branched tails and inconspicuous boit W. W., Kew, 
ee, AUREA. 
Srverat plants of this excellent reed tired 
species (fig, 80 were shown by Messrs, 
& Co, of Colchester, at the meeting of the R. H. S. on 
Tuesday, October 29, Lycoris is allied to Amary)llir, 
but is distinguished from that genus by the small 
ber of ovules in each cell of the ovary. The 
length of the segments in L. aurea is 3 inches, and 
FLOWERS ORANGE, 
Fie 94.—LYCORIS AUREA: 
— 
llow- 
colour a rich ee A are ye 
. The flowers appear beet August an and 
Mi , t. 409, as A llis 
E «ui Mdh ui Ou Ww INT iy 
Dr, Fothergill. 
PLANT (T NOTES, 
PRIMULA CASHMERIANA (CAPITATA). 
Tuts North-western Indian Primrose is one o 
the most charming alpines for ачага at this 
in - respect, as in others. 
the other day, and every plant was in bloom. The 
— sheltered by a high bank, and shaded by a 
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