152 EPIMEDIUM MACRANTHUM. 
kindness of Mr. Newman, the director of the Paris Botanic Garden, since which 
time we have seen it endure the open air during the past severe winter with perfect 
impunity, and without any other protection than a slight additional covering of 
light soil. 
It flowers most abundantly in the months of April and May, at which time 
our drawing was taken at Chatsworth in the present year. 
Either cultivated in a pot, or planted in the open ground, it is a most delightful 
and ornamental little plant ; and, from the facility with which it may be grown, 
the early period of the season at which it produces its delicate and showy blossoms, 
as well as the great abundance of the latter, (plants of a moderate size bearing 
three or four spikes of flowers,) it should be in the collection of every admirer of 
hardy herbaceous plants. 
The specific name alludes to the large size of the flowers compared with those 
of the other known species, and this plant is frequently called E. grandiflorum, 
which has precisely the same signification. 
