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they come true to the mule type. The cross from peduncu- 
latum is of very large stature, and follows the habit of the 
male parent in the splitting of its huge columnar bulb, but 
produces offsets. They produce a succession of scapes till 
winter, and are very handsome. They are perfectly hardy ; 
but the climate of Yorkshire is seldom hot enough to make 
them flower in the middle of the garden. 
3. Herberti, or Scabro-Capense ; named by Sweet Hort. 
Brit. A plant of great beauty, bearing 1 1 flowers on a 
scape 3 feet high, peduncles short, with the germen little 
more than an inch, tube 4 inches, limb 3^, blush with deep 
red stripes, expansion about 5 inches ; style as in scabrum, 
longer than the limb, red towards the end; filaments, an- 
thers, and pollen white ; stigma crimson, small ; ovules per- 
fect, 22-24 in a cell ; leaves 5-6-feet long, above 4 inches wide. 
It requires a warmer situation where the wall is a little heated 
to make it flower finely, which it does several times each 
year in such a situation. This cross had continued barren 
14 or 15 years, till the summer of 1834, when it produced, 
in the border out of doors, one smallish seed, which vege- 
tated ; but the leaves of the young plant were colourless and 
it died in a few months. In 1835 one larger seed was pro- 
duced which was sown in white sand and grew freely. It 
is now above a year old, shewing no signs of approximation 
to Capense, the leaves being of a bright green, with no glau- 
cous tinge, and the plant must be either the genuine offspring 
of the mule, or the seed may have been fertilized by Pedun- 
culato-Capense which grew close beside it. 
4. Puseyce , or Specioso-Capense ; named after my niece 
Lady Emily Pusey. 5. Wallichii, or Careyano-Capense ; 
named after Dr. Wallich. 6. Seymouri, or Revoluto-Ca- 
pense. 7. Roxburghi , or Defixo-Capense. This cross has 
produced seed. 8. Ebordci, or Asiatico-Capense. 9. Alta- 
clarce, or Erubescente-Capense ; Bot. Mag. 49. 2336. This 
cross, raised at Highclere and at Spofforth, from two different 
varieties, does not flower freely, producing a superabundance 
of offsets, on which it wastes its vigour. The converse Ca- 
pensi-erubescens is a handsomer variety. 10. Shepherdi, or 
Cruento-Capense ; named after the late conductor of the 
Liverpool garden. It has been standing a great many years 
in the border in front of a stove beside Scabro-Capense, 
but has never flowered, probably requiring more heat. 11. 
Baconi , or Zeylanico-erubescens. Raised in the stove of the 
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