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they require, in order to prepare their blossom, a hot period 
of rest, which would be often wanting to them if exposed to 
our climate. When cultivated in a border, they should be 
covered with a glass frame, to keep them hot and dry in 
May, June, and July, and any covering of mats or straw 
that will prevent injury from severe frost may be sufficient 
in winter; or they may be taken up when the leaves decay, 
without breaking the fibres, kept in sand, and reset three 
months after. As most of these bulbs are found in dry 
gravelly situations, they must require the border to be well 
drained, which should be done by a layer six inches deep of 
stones covered with an inverted sod, or at least with heath, 
furze, or straw. The same system may be pursued with 
advantage in deep pots for all plants that are liable to suffer 
from wet, as Habranthus Bagnoldianus, and Hesperius, 
placing a thin inverted sod, or some other covering, over 
the crocks or stones, to prevent the drainage from becom- 
ing choked, and with that precaution stronger soil may 
be used than would suit otherwise, and less water will be 
necessary. 
35. Zephyranthes. — Leaves linear; scape one-flowered ; 
spathe one-valved; germen sessile or pedunculated, 
erect ; tube short, funnel-shaped ; perianth sub- 
erect ; faucial membrane inconspicuous, not annu- 
lar, manifested (if at all) by six very minute points 
above the insertion of the filaments, which is at the 
base of the segments just without the tube, the 
sepaline inserted a very little lower, and shorter; 
anthers suberect, versatile, attached below the 
middle, sloped. (Stigma usually trifid, patent ; cap- 
sule ovate, deeply 3-furrowed ; seeds less numerous 
than in Hippeastrum ; style generally declined, the 
opposite filament being averted.) Leaves narrow, 
(estival, produced in the spring ; flower simultaneous 
or later. 
A. Pedunculated. 
1. Mesochloa. — Bot. Reg. 16. 1361. Leaves green; 
spathe looped ; perianth half-green, above white,, 
stained with red outside, segments acute, tube very 
short, smooth within, style white, an inch shorter 
than the limb, very little longer than the filaments. I 
have placed this first, not as the type of the genus, 
