February 13, 1889.] 



Garden and Forest. 



77 



N. Sarniensis. — Guernsey Lily. Already very well known. 

 The scape is developed in August, and is about one foot long, 

 bearing an umbel of from ten to twenty bright, rose-crimson 

 fiowers, each one and a quarter inches long, with red filaments 

 half as long again as the corolla. 



Var. Plantit has longer scapes, deeper colored flowers, and 



even larger in the flowers. This is, perhaps, the finest of all 

 the forms of N. Sarnieftsis. 



N. curvifolia. — -This is the largest flowered and handsomest 

 of the species, and is also the parent of all the best kinds of 

 garden origin. The scape is about a foot and a half high, the 

 umbel twelve-flowered, six inches through, large, bright scar- 



Fig. 93, — Rosa humilis, var. triloba. — See page 76. 

 It is one of the best of the 



is a better plant than the type 

 Nerines. 



Var. profusa has bright scarlet flowers, with narrower seg- 

 ments. 



Var. corusca is distinguished by its broad foliage, large um- 

 bels, and large, bright, scarlet flowers. A major form of it is 



let, glittering in the sunlight ; each flower is one and a half 

 inches long, with broad, reflexed segments, and long, project- 

 ing filaments. I have seen a specimen of this in a twelve-inch 

 pot, bearing sixteen grand heads of flower. Certainly nothing 

 gould be finer. The flowers are developed in September 

 and last about a month. N. Pother gilli is a large flowered 



