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the other three, which he describes. This is the 
hardiest kind of Corbularia. 
3. Conspicua. Haw. — Var. 1. princeps. Park. par. 107. 
f. 6. Sweet Br. fl. g. ser. 2. 326. Taller and larger 
than Bulbocodium. Cup plicate, margin repand, 
style longer, leaves erect. April. 
Var. 2. Minor. — Both varieties are cultivated at the 
Chelsea gardens, and are conspicuous by the erect 
leaves and long scape. I have not seen the flower. 
Var. 3? Gigas? — Theatr. flor. t. 21. Whether the fig. 
referred to represents v. princeps or a larger va- 
riety, otherwise unknown, I cannot pronounce. I 
find reason to place little faith on the correctness 
of the engravings of that period. 
4. Tenuifolia. — Var. 1. Princeps. Sweet Br. f. g. t. 114. 
Bulbocodium. Specim. Linn. herb, sed non Linn. 
Syst. Leaves very narrow, cup 6-lobed, limb fths 
shorter, style fths longer, than the cup. I had 
hundreds of bulbs of this plant in my garden for 
many years, but one inauspicious season extermi- 
nated them. 
Var. 2. Minor. — Smaller in all its parts. Both varie- 
ties are cultivated in pots in the Chelsea garden. 
In Mr. Bentham’s herbarium I find a singularly 
minute variety of this plant stated to grow in Italy 
generally, the style exceeding the cup. 
5? Obesa. — Salisbury Hort. Soc. Tr. 1. 350. Cup en- 
tire inflated, (style exceeding the cup, Haw.) leaves 
recumbent on the ground. I have not been able to 
discover this plant, which Haworth states to flower 
in March. Salisbury had it from Tangiers, and says 
that it grows also in Spain and Portugal, and is a 
tender plant. He quotes Clus. Pseud, n. June. 1. 
p. 165, oris non sinuosis aut fimbriatis, and says, 
edge of the cup even. Fl. April. 
Aurea, taken up on the authority of a bad figure in Mo- 
rison, I have no hesitation in rejecting. It is quite vain to 
trust to minute differences in such engravings. There is a 
very large specimen figured Theatr. flor. t. 21. which Mr. 
Haworth names Gigas. I cannot rely upon the engraving, 
and refer it to Conspicua. 
