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would seem to be an established form. This year I have just 

 noted that one bulb is bearing a flower from a white sheath or 

 spathe, and several other flowers have extra sepals, and are more 

 or less monstrous. Flowers of this variety sent by the same 

 gentleman in February 1891 had a normal greenish spathe and 

 a prolonged pedicel bearing two or more bracts of a white colour. 

 Some of the flowers are semi-double, having long and slender 

 sepals, and others have four to five sepals. The petals also vary 

 in number and shape, some being pure white, as in G. jpoculi- 

 formis and other intermediate varieties. 



29. G.pMcatus, M. B., Bot. Mag., t. 2162, is a native of the 

 Crimea and the Caucasus, and is readily known, even when not 

 in bloom, by its plaited leaves. 



G. plicatus of Tenore is G. Imperati. 



G. plicatus majus is a larger-flowered form. 



30. G. plicatus "Romeo" is a fine seedling variety raised 

 by Mr. Allen ; so also are "elegans," "Emerald," and several 

 others. 



G. ylicatus " Chapel var." is a distinct form foundby Mr. Boyd 

 G. plicatus maximus is a discovery made by Mr. Boyd, and is 

 a very robust, large-flow r ered variety. 



31. G. poculiformis, Hort. — This is a pure white or albino 

 Snowdrop raised by Mr. D. Melville, of Dunrobin Castle, N.B. 

 It is a form of G. nivalis. Mr. A. D. Webster also found this 

 form among the Snowdrops at Penrhyn. The petals, like the 

 sepals, are unmarked with green. The inner perianth segments 

 are nearly as long as the outer, and are closed inwards in a 

 peculiar manner. 



32. G. prcecox. — A garden name for G. corcyrcnsis. 



33. G. Bachelce. — An autumnal- blooming variety of G. nivalis 

 from Mount Hymettus, flowering in October. Introduced by Dr. 

 J. P. Mahaffy in 1884. Habit of G. nivalis, but with smaller 

 leaves, which succeed the flowers. 



34. G. Bedoutei. — A large Caucasian form of G. nivalis, so 

 named by Ruprecht. Not to be confounded with G. latifolius, 

 which is often grown in error as G. Bedoutei in gardens. The 

 true G. Bedoutei is supposed to agree with the Snowdrop figured 

 in " Les Liliacees " of that artist. 



35. G. BegincB Olgce. — This is a garden name often used for 

 G. Olgce of Orphanides. 



