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L’CCA ALOIFOLIA. 
where the sun is fierce, and lots of water when grow- 
ing. 
There are many other genera of the Allieae grown — 
such as Milla, Brodiaea, Bessera, Bloomeria, and 
Allium, particulars of which would exceed the limits 
of a short paper. 
Lachenalia in thirty species are South African, and 
in south European and Californian gardens are amaz- 
ingly showy and pretty plants. Their colors range 
from white to yellow, yellow and red, pink, red, purple, 
purple and white, white and green, yellow and green, 
red yellow and green, and other combinations of color 
CAUCASPIA ESCUI.ENTA. 
too intricate to remember or describe. They are raised 
from seed and by offsets easily where hardy. 
Galtonias in two or three species are South African. 
G. candicans is the only one in gardens and bears 
fine spikes of white flowers about four feet high. It is 
quite hardy in New Jersey, endures for several years, 
and matures seed which grows readily. It groups 
finely with the early varieties of Kniphofia aloides. 
Muscari, “grape hyacinth,” is in forty species, na- 
tives of the Mediterranean regions north to Britain, 
where racemosum is mostly found among ruins, how- 
From American Florist. 
EREMURUS ROBUSTUS. 
ever, and doubtfully native. M. botryoides and M. 
racemosum are naturalized in some parts of the At- 
lantic States. 
Hyacinthus has thirty species, found in Mediter- 
ranean countries and southward in Africa. Pusch- 
kinea, Chionodoxa, Scilla, and Ornithogalum are 
other well known genera of the Scillese from prac- 
tically the same regions. 
Camassia is in two or three or more Northwest 
American species, C. Frazerii being the most easterly. 
They are mostly bog or meadow plants, and the regions 
inhabited by them have more or less wet winters and 
dry summers, which may account for their scarcity in 
most Atlantic Coast gardens. Otherwise they are per- 
fectly hardy. C. Cusickii grows on drier ground and 
has pale blue flowers. C. esculenta has darker blue or 
sometimes white flowers. 
James MacPherson. 
(To be continued.) 
