1774. Its flowers appear, in the greenhouse, in March 
and April. 
Scape, in the original variety, rounded, hairy. Raceme 
many-flowered, with rounded, smooth pedicels, scarcely 
an inch long. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, about flower- 
ing-time shorter than the peduncles, and smooth. Sepals 
spreading, white, dull green at back, half an inch long. 
Filaments subulate, white, shorter than the sepals, a little 
hispid, the thin alternate ones less hispid. Style the length 
of the stamens. — 
In the present variety the scape is more dwarf, and, be- 
sides the other characters indicated above, the filameuts 
are smooth. 
J.L. 
