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Tritonia Longiflora. MSS. Tritonia capensis. Kerin 

 Bot. Mag. n. 618. cum Ic. optima. 



A plant nearly allied to Hyalis Longiflora, and very possi- 

 bly produced between it and the following species ; it is, 

 however, more tender than either of them. 



Tritonia Catenularis. MSS. Tritonia lineata. Dryand. 

 in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. p. 91. Gladiolus Lineatus. Curt, 

 in Bot. Mag. n. 487- cum Ic. optima. 



This plant lived several years in the open air, close to a 

 south wall, in Lord Petre's kitchen garden at Thorndon Hall, 

 and differs from all its congeners yet discovered, in the old 

 bulb not decaying annually : in a dry soil they will continue 

 adhering, three and even four years. The Gladiolus Lineatus 

 of my Prodromus, is a mere variety of Tritonia Securigera. 



Sparaxis Grandiflora 13. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 541. 

 cum Ic. 



Several varieties of this beautiful species are in our gar- 

 dens ; and I succeeded in cultivating it in the open air at 

 Mill Hill, planting the bulbs in January four or five inches 

 deep, and covering the surface of the border with a little 

 moss. From many experiments, I found it did not answer to 

 keep them out of the ground later, not that the bulb seemed 

 affected if kept dry, but its vegetation was advanced too 

 rapidly, by the longer days and shorter nights : this appeared 

 from two bulbs planted on the 20th of March 1804, one 

 close to the green-house, facing the south, in front of which a 

 large space, covered with gravel, reflected the sun's rays very 

 strongly ; and the other in the north court, where it had no 

 sun after ten o'clock in the morning ; this latter did not 

 flower till the beginning of July, more than a month after 



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