CHAPTER IV. 



MEDIO-CORONATI. 



The second group — MEDIO-CORONATI— though 

 made up chiefly of hybrids, contains two undoubted 

 species and several wild hybrids until recently reckoned 

 as species. In the following list the true species are put 

 first, then the wild hybrids, then the ancient hybrids not 

 now common in a wild state, and finally those typical 

 garden hybrids of recent times to which so large a por- 

 tion of our beautiful garden forms is to be referred. ^ 



(l) Triandrus. Spain and Portugal. — Dwarf- 

 growing, rush-leaved species. One to five flowered. 

 Flowers variable in size. Cream-white perianth 

 segments (equal in length to the tube), lance-shaped 

 and sharply reflexed ; white chalice-shaped corona 

 half as long as the segments. 



Best grown in cold frame or rock-work ; requires 

 well drained, gritty soil. 



Concolor. — Pale self-yellow. 

 Pallidulus. — Primrose-yellow. 

 Pulchellus. — Segments yellow ; corona 

 white. 



Nutans. — Corona a deeper yellow than 



segments. 



Subsp. Calathinus. From Isle of Glenans, 



Brittany. — Corona larger than in Triandrus, 



and about the same length as the reflexed 



' See note chap. iii. p. iz. 



