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The inner surfaces of these segments are usually marked with 
green lines on raised ridges between the veins. The honey is exuded 
from the base of these segments and flows a little way down between 
the ridges, so that the green lines and the ridges guide an insect 
visitor's tongue to the honey. 
The large Snowdrop, G. Elwesii, from Asia Minor, appears to reach 
the high-water mark of specialization from the Leucoium type of 
flower. In it we find : 
1. Larger and more boat-shaped outer segments. 
2. Inner segments that overlap more, and are stiff er and more 
deeply furrowed, forming a closer bell, more like the tube of a Hyacinth 
flower in effect, and thus a still better protection for pollen than the 
more spreading, flatter segments of G. nivalis. 
3. The triggers of the sprinkling apparatus of the anthers more 
curved and larger. 
4. The presence of an additional green spot at the base of the 
inner segments. This may help to darken the cavity of the bell, 
but is so often joined by a central streak to the horseshoe marking 
that it may serve to guide insects down to the sinus. 
Species and Varieties. 
Galanthus nivalis. Figure 1 shows a fine tall form of the Common 
Snowdrop, with particularly well-shaped flowers, and twice as large 
in all its parts as the ordinary form. It was found in the garden of 
an old farm in Holland and introduced into English gardens in 1914 
by the Haarlem firm of Van Tubergen under the name of G. nivalis 
maximus. 
G. nivalis Melvillei (fig. 2) is a very beautiful seedling raised by 
Mr. Melville many years ago at Dunrobin Castle. I find it rather 
a dwarf form, but it is said to be taller than ordinary nivalis as it 
grows at Dunrobin. This drav/ing was made from specimens kindly 
sent me by Mr. Melville in 1906, and it has never grown any taller 
here. The globular form of the blossoms and their very slight green 
markings make it a very beautiful variety. 
G. nivalis var. poculiformis is another of Mr. Melville's Dunrobin 
forms, bat one which appears now and then among ordinary Snow- 
drops. The inner segments are similar to the outer in form and 
colour, and when fully expanded and just showing a gleam of the 
golden anthers among the pure white segments it has a very distinct 
effect. Unfortunately it is not a very stable form, and varies much 
in certain seasons, with inner segments of different lengths and more 
or less marked with green. 
' Magnet ' (fig. 4) is one of the late Mr. James Allen's beautiful 
seedlings. It is said to have been raised from seed of Melvillei, but 
is a much taller form, and chiefly remarkable for the very long and 
slender flower-stalk, which is so slender that the expanded blossoms 
sway to and fro in a breeze. 
