THE GIANT ASPHODELS. 



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GIANT ASPHODEL AT G LO UNTHAUNE, CORK. (Engraved for " Flora.") 



THE GIANT ASPHODELS 



remurus). 



There are altogether about 30 species 

 of Eremuri which have been introduced 

 to cultivation. They belong to the order 

 Liliacece and have been divided into two 

 groups, that of Am?nolirion, where the 



pedicels or stalklets of the individual 

 blossoms are adherent or erect, and that 

 of Henningia^ 'm which the stalklets are 

 drooping or merely rising. All have been 

 obtained from Asia, but especially from 

 Persia, Turkestan, Afghanistan,andeven 

 so far north as Siberia. Many of the spe- 



