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to T. Eiclileri, and as I have already mentioned may not be 
identical with Boissier’s T. undulatifolia. 
T. bceotica, Boiss. and Held., Diagn., ser. ii.—iv., 99. This 
species I have never seen in a living state, and do not know 
that it is now in cultivation. It was discovered by Dr. Heldreich 
in Euboea and Boeotia flowering at the end of March, and is said 
by Mr. Baker to hold an intermediate place between T. oculis 
solis and T. strangulata. The leaves of some specimens which 
I have seen are very short, and if constant in form would be a 
good distinguishing character. 
* T. Didieri, Jord., Fragm., i. 36, t. 5, fig. a. This pretty 
plant seems to be very little known either to horticulturists or 
botanists, since no figure of it has been published except by 
Jordan. There are several varieties differing in colour, all of 
which are found in the valleys of Savoy, especially at St. Jean 
de Maurienne, which is a little way on the French side of the 
Mont Cenis Tunnel; also at Clapet, near Chambery, and else¬ 
where. According to Mr. Baker, the Florentine T. Fransonianci, 
Pari., is probably identical with it; but I have not been able to 
procure living specimens for comparison. The stem is about 
1J feet high, glabrous, the flowers crimson, with a large black 
blue eye, margined yellowish white ; or in the variety Billetiana, 
yellow ; or in another variety yellow, closely freckled and flamed 
with red. The segments are all cuspidate, the stigma capitate 
yellowish, and the anthers and filaments blackish. I can see 
no character by which this plant can be distinguished from 
* T. Eiclileri , Regel, “ Garten Flora,” t. 799 ; “ Bot. Mag.,” 
t. 6191, which, though coming from so distant a locality as 
Baku, on the west shore of the Caspian Sea, is in every im¬ 
portant external character identical with one variety of Didieri, 
though perhaps in size and colour somewhat finer. 
T. Julia, Koch, Linn, xxii., 23. This I have never seen 
either a specimen or figure of; but according to Baker it is a 
variety of T . montana, and the description shows that it is not 
very dissimilar from Eiclileri. It comes from Transcaucasia 
and Turkestan. 
* T. Greigi, Regel,“ Bot. Mag.,” t. 6177. This is, without doubt, 
one of the finest, if not the very finest, of the genus, and 
most distinct. It is from a foot to eighteen inches high 
with three or four large leaves of a pale green, richly spotted 
