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nerves. It is botanically allied to Z. speciosum on the 
one hand, and to the orange-red LZ. Thunbergianum on 
the other; but it is wholly different from either.” 
At the present time this splendid Lily is scarce, selling 
for $5 per bulb. 
LIMNANTHES. 
{Name from the Greek, meaning marsh-flower.] 
Limnénthes Douglasii.— Mr. Douglas’ Limnanthes.—A 
native of California, from whence it was sent by Mr. Doug- 
las. The plant is annual, quite hardy, decumbent, stems 
growing ten or twelve inches long. The stems are 
crowned with numerous fragant flowers, each about an inch 
across, much resembling in size and form the Nemophila 
insignis. A large portion of the flower is a deep yellow, 
the extremities of the petals being white. It blooms from 
June to August. 
LINARIA.—Toap Frax. 
{The plant, out of flower, is very similar to Linum, Flax.] 
The species are for the most part pretty annual plants, 
and some of them, as Linaria Cymbalaria, well adapted 
for growing in pots or for rock-work; ZL. triphylla is a 
popular border annual; ZL. triornithophora is remarkable 
for the form of its flowers, which resemble three little 
birds seated in the spur. Z. vulgaris, known as Butter 
and Eggs, Toad-Flax, and Ranstead-weed, is a very showy 
plant, but a bad weed. Z. bipartita lutea, alba and splen- 
dida, and L. macroura, are also pretty plants. 
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