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974 ON THE STRUCTURE OF LILY BULBS. 
forms of the plants which I have just named, which MM. Jordan and 
Fourreau have lately described and figured most carefully in their ‘Icones 
Smith, slightly changed by cultivation; that No. 2 represents Hyacinthus 
cernuus of Linnzus, but that this is merely a form of nonseriptus with — 
been applied variously, and the most authoritative figure is badly drawn; 
but the weight of evidence places it between the other two, like our Nos. 
3 and 4, and the two earlier plates of the ‘ Botanical Magazine.’ This - 
disposes of all the published names, and leaves out only our No. 8, which 
is a more extreme form than campanulata, and might be called campanulata. 
aperta.—From the Gardeners’ Chronicle, August 3rd, 1872. 
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ON THE STRUCTURE OF LILY BULBS. 
In general the species included in this geographical division Em 
of the east side of North America) offer in their subterranean part @ 
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ost part, pointed 
and laxly imbricated, which, taken as a whole, was about twice as 
as deep. di 
similar but less numerous rootlets at a lower level in such a way -— 
e bulb to 
penetrate the soil. Finally, the extreme base of this same old 
prolonged below the bulb with a diameter nearly double that w 
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broad truncation. As a whole, the base of the stem which ha 
in the preceding year, traversed the bulb and issued from 1t 
and below. . imme- 
It is from this old stem that has flowered in the preceding yea?» pro fe 
diately below the old bulb and very likely from the axil of a scale tha b 
fallen, that the horizontal branch is originated, which at its extremity v de — 
the new bulb from which one sees already arise the conical summit "nl v 
shoot which will soon develope into the flower-stem of the po pgtb; 
rhizome does not reach more than two or three centimetres © 
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