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but the flowers often smaller and of a more greenish hue. The bulbs 
of all should be planted permanently where they can remain undisturbed. 
Any garden soil will suit them. In summer they may have a top- 
dressing, and the surface may be sown with annuals without interfering 
with the bulbs. 
Leucoium (Greek, leukos, white, and ion, a violet). This genus, 
which contains nine species, two of which are native, is distinguished 
from the last by the leaves being more numerous, the flowers from one 
to six to a scape, and the perianth divisions all but equal in length. The 
best-known species are the two that are found locally in Britain. 
Leucoium cestivum, the Summer Snowflake, with white flowers, each 
segment tipped with green; from four to eight to a scape; May and 
June. Height, about 18 inches. L. vernum, the Spring Snowflake, is 
much smaller, not more than 6 inches high, with solitary or twin 
flowers, fragrant, appearing in February and March. They succeed 
best under the treatment suggested for Galanthus—to be planted and 
left alone. 
EucHaris (Greek, ew, well, and charis, grace: very graceful). A 
genus of five or six species of South American stove bulbous plants, all 
in cultivation, and producing broad oval or elliptic evergreen leaves on 
long stalks, and tall scapes bearing clusters of nodding, fragrant, white 
flowers, which are tubular, slender, with six broad, spreading segments, 
and within these a cup-shaped corona bearing the six stamens on its 
edges. Hucharis candida (introduced 1851) has a bulb as large as a 
hen’s egg, bearing a solitary leaf, and a six- to ten-flowered umbel on 
a 2-feet scape; the flowers 3 inches across. EF. grandiflora (amazonica) 
(introduced 1854) has flowers 4 to 5 inches across, the corona tinged with 
green, in three- to six-flowered umbels. There are several leaves. JZ. 
sanderiana (introduced 1882) is similar to the last, but smaller—about 3 
_ inches across—and the corona is suppressed; the inside of the tube and 
the filaments of the stamens are yellow. The bulbs should be planted 
in large pots, and deeply, putting half a dozen bulbs into a 10-inch pot. 
The compost should be rich loam, two parts, to one part of mixed leaf- 
mould and manure, to which a little charcoal should be added. They 
require a minimum temperature of about 65°, increased to about 80° in 
summer. So long as they are growing they require plenty of water, 
and when the flower-buds appear, liquid-manure as well. Removal to 
a cooler house at this period ensures a longer duration for the flowers. 
They are propagated by means of the offsets produced around the bulbs. 
There are several good hybrids of garden origin. 
PANCRATIUM (Greek, pan, all, and kratys, powerful : ——— to be 
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