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AMARYLUDACE^E. 
Smaller and earlier than v. 8, but in other respects 
similar ; margin of the cup plicate. 
Var. 5? Albus. — The slightly saffron rimmed. Haworth. 
Flowers in the middle of April. I have no know- 
ledge of the last three varieties, and I cannot find 
them in cultivation at present. 
Late flowering . — May. 
Var. 6. — Majalis. — PI. 40. f. 2. Engl. Bot. 4. 275. 
Anther PI. 38. f. 14. 
Var. 7. — Recurvus. — PL 40. f. 1. Sweet Br. fl. g. ser. 2. 
Leaves with the points always drooping; limb 
waved, reflex. 
Var. 8. Patellaris. — PL 40. f. 3. Leaves broad, sepals 
more reflex than the petals, whence either this or 
the earlier ornatus was called tripodalis, corrupted 
into tripedalis, implying that the three reflex seg- 
ments represent the feet of a tripod. 
Var. 9. Stellaris. — Haworth. Park. Parad. t. 76. 4. 
Sweet Br. fl. g. ser. 2. 132. — Wild specimen, dep. 
d’Aveyron. Herb. Bentham. Segments of the limb 
narrow at the base and distinct. Cultivated in the 
Chelsea garden, and by the Hort. Soc. 
Diminutive. — May. 
Var. 10. Verbanensis. — PL 37. f. 2. A very dimi- 
nutive plant, agreeing with Poeticus, but smal- 
ler in all its parts, with very narow linear leaves, 
and reflex limb, tinged with yellow at the base. 
Brought to Bolton Percy in Yorkshire a few 
years ago, by Mrs. Robert Markham, who found 
it growing in a pasture, about a mile from 
Baveno, near Lago Maggiore, on the side of 
the road to Milan. It is remarkable that this plant 
does not seem to increase by offsets in its native 
situation, the bulbs being found single and scattered 
about the pasture, instead of growing in tufts, like 
most others. It flowers about the middle of May 
both there and in England. Parkinson has two 
small varieties, one with a purple rim, from France, 
which Haworth calls purpuro-cinctus ; another 
from the Pyrenees, with an orange rim, -which he 
