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at the base on the outside, and the petals entirely 

 of a dark rich green, with the exception of a narrow 

 white margin. Mr Allen has raised a number of 

 seedlings from this variety, but nothing of exceptional 

 merit has appeared. Most of the seedlings were very 

 like the parent, although the markings on the sepals 

 were scarcely so dark in the green colour. I find 

 also that this is stronger in growth than many of 

 the other curious varieties. G. Scharloki (Caspary) 

 is a very distinct variety of G. nivalis, having large 

 twin-spathes of leafy texture, and small flowers marked 

 with greenish lines near the apices of the sepals. It 

 is easily recognised by the large leafy twin-spathe, and 

 by its outer sepals being marked with three to five 

 suffused lines near their apices, and the inner petals 

 having a bold green delta with a pyramidal point over 

 the sinus. No two spathes are quite alike. Sometimes 

 they split at the base and recurve ; at others they are 

 wholly, or in part, united along one of their edges. 

 This was named by Professor Caspary, Koenigsberg, in 

 compliment to M. Scharlok of Grandenz (a keen explorer 

 of the botany of Prussia), who discovered this twin- 

 spathed or leafy-spathed form growing wild in some 

 copses of Western Prussia, where it may still be found. 

 G. Warei is a form or phase of G. Scharloki, but the 

 spathe lobes are coherent. It has the same marks on 

 the outer sepals as in G. Scharloki, and was called 

 Warei from the fact of its appearing among an import- 

 ation of G. Scharloki belonging to that gentleman. The 

 next in this section is a very curious form of G. 

 Fosteri. This appeared among a small number of bulbs 

 of G. Fosteri, which had come to Mr Allen, by whom 

 it was named G. Fosteri " Leopard," and regarded 

 as a great curiosity, having flowers of quite unusual 

 shape, and at the tip of each outer sepal a large dark 

 green spot in the style of Leucojum vernum. The last 

 of this section which I have growing is a variety of 



