6 E THE WEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 
EB. PURPURASCENS. I have at last a bulb and habit. I predict that when 
_ form of this species which flowers with known it will quite supercede T. ovatum 
fe giganteum and can be grown success- and T. grandiflorum in cultivation. 
fully in cool re es. The bulbs grow ZYGADENUS FREMONTII. Thisisa 
large. The leaves are handsome, un- very hardy large flowered species, which 
tled, purplish green in color. The I think quite worthy of cultivation. Sev- 
several flowers in a close raceme, white eral forms are called Z. Fremontii, but 
_ with orange center, and soon turn pink- the one I grow is quite superior to the 
~ ish purple. others in size of flower. 
FRITILLARIA MULTIFLORA. is 
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Kellogg, resembles F. eolata its 
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