BKODLE'A CONGESTA. 
CROWDED BRODI.EA. 
Class. 
TRIANDR1A. 
Order. 
MONOGYN I A. 
Natural Order. 
I.ILIACE.®. 
Native of | 
Height. Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Georgia, j 
1 foot. June, July. 
Bulbous. 
in 1806. 
No. 1107. 
The name Brodisea was first adopted by the late 
president of the Linnean Society, Sir James Edward 
Smith, in honour of James Brodie, Esq., of Brodie 
House, in Scotland ; a gentleman of scientific at- 
tainments, who paid much attention to the Cryp- 
togamia of his own country. 
This is an exceedingly pretty, free-flowering, 
hardy, bulbous, plant, introduced to this country 
some years ago, but probably lost from our gardens 
till re-introduced by our recent American collec- 
tors. The species Grandiflora and Congesta, will 
be found recorded in the tenth volume of the Lin- 
nean Transactions, but we are not aware of any 
figure having hitherto been published of the present 
species. 
The Brodiaea congesta should be planted in light 
friable peat; for although it may succeed moderate- 
ly well in loamy soil, in this it will not increase so 
freely as in any species of light vegetable earth. 
Offsets from its bulbs may be taken in spring, for 
increase, and they will succeed in the borders ; or 
treated as alpine plants, being potted in a mixture 
of sand and peat. 
