purple, 3-channelled, thickened upwards. Stigma
clubbed, 3-sulcate.
We have adopted the name of Professor Link for the
present species, the other names by which it has been
already published, tending only to confuse; the present
is the name adopted in the continental gardens,
from whence we have often received seeds of it. But
this must not be confounded with the L. spectabile of
Mr. Salisburj', which is the L. Catesbcei of other
authors.
Our drawing was taken from a plant at the Apothecaries’
Company’s Garden, at Chelsea, in July last,
where it was growing very strong in the open border.
It is quite hardy, and thrives well in the common
garden soil, flowering the latter end of June, or the
beginning of July. It increases pretty freely by offsets
from the bulbs ; and it also ripens seeds, which should
be sown as soon as gathered, as they then vegetate
immediately. The L. croceum of Loddiges’ Botanical
Cabinet, is nearly allied to our plant, judging from the
figure, but we think it is certainly distinct, and also
from the L. croceum of Link.
1. One of the Stamens attached to the base of one of the leaflets of the
Perianthium. 2. Germens, Style, and Stigma.