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orifices terminal, and style club-shaped (i. e. thick 
at top, attenuated downwards) ; stigma triangular, 
slender, tapering to a point ; capsule turbinate, seeds 
yellowish white. 
1. Vernum. — Leucojum vernum. Bot. Mag. 2. 46. 
Spathe longer than the peduncle, perianth | long, 
segments concave, oval, with a blunt point ; a 
yellowish green spot on the outside of each, just 
below the point ; style white below, green upwards ; 
the tapering point white. Flower fragrant; in 
February. 
This is no Leucojum, for that genus has shining testaceous 
black seeds like those of Hemerocallis, and a style attenuated 
at both ends like the roller used by pastry-cooks. It differs 
from Galanthus in having the petals like the sepals, and the 
style club-shaped and thick, instead of slender and tapering 
upwards ; it differs from Acis in the complete separation of 
the segments of the perianth, which are united in Acis, in 
the style attenuated downwards instead of upwards, the acute 
stigma, and the round orifices of the anthers, which if we may 
trust the usual accuracy of Parad. Loud, are more longitudi- 
nal in Acis (see Par. Lond. fig. 21.) and the leaves not being 
filiform. Erinosma should be planted in peat. In very wet 
summers it may be advisable to take up the bulbs. 
2. Carpathicum. — Leucojum vernum; var. /3. Bot. Mag. 
45.1993. Spathe 2-flowered ; spots on the perianth 
yellow. 
I have not been able to obtain a sight of this plant. I see 
no reason for confounding it with the one-flowered, green- 
spotted vernum. I believe that vernum does not ever pro- 
duce a two-flowered scape, and that the L. prsecox majus of 
Clusius is Carpathicum. 
82. Acis. — Perianth just united at the base ; segments nearly 
similar ; filaments inserted in the disk ; free, short, 
straight; anthers erect, affixed at the base ; dehiscent 
on the outer side near the orifice ; style filiform, a little 
attenuated upwards ; stigma a little divided ; seeds 
fleshy, angular. (Bulb ovate ; leaves filiform ; scape 
1 -few-flowered ; spathe 2-valved ; germen pendulous.) 
1. Trichophylla. — Leucojum trichop hyllum. Bot. Reg. 
7.544. One-flowered, perianth oval, white ; flowers 
vernal. 
