. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. trations of different views at Cliveden,prepared froin photographs specially taken byMr. Arthur E. Smith, will be found on pp, 73,76, 77, 81, and S4, New Garden Plants. Calochortus venustus vars. lilacinus andPURPUREUS, Baker. These are two very fine varieties of C. venustus,which certainly for horticultural purposes deserve aname, which have been sent to me along with a fineseries of the typical white-flowered form, as figuredby Benlham in the first volume of the new series ofthe Horticultural Trans
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. trations of different views at Cliveden,prepared froin photographs specially taken byMr. Arthur E. Smith, will be found on pp, 73,76, 77, 81, and S4, New Garden Plants. Calochortus venustus vars. lilacinus andPURPUREUS, Baker. These are two very fine varieties of C. venustus,which certainly for horticultural purposes deserve aname, which have been sent to me along with a fineseries of the typical white-flowered form, as figuredby Benlham in the first volume of the new series ofthe Horticultural Transactions^ tab. 15, fig. 3, and ofC. splendens and C. luteus, by Messrs. E, H. Krelage& Son, of Haarlem. Lilacinus has a distinct red-brown blotch bordered with yellow, and deep purplemarkings on a pale lilac ground on the face of thesepals, and deltoid petals 2 inches long and broad,plain lilac in the upper half, with a round, red-brownblotch in the centre a third of an inch across, borderedwith a bright yellow, and stained with light brown at THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE.—]vi.\- at, 1877,. Fig. II,—plan of the glass dbpartment at clivkden. (for references see p. 70, opposite.) 72 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [July 2:, 1877. the top, and the lower half of the petal grained withclaret-brown, with a crescent-shaped cushion of red-brown hairs above the naked claw, and outside ot thisscattered longer, deflexed, more bristly hairs ot the?iame kind. In purpureus the colouring of the nakedupper half of the petal is a most brilliant purple-lilac,the central yellow-bordered blotch being not round,but considerably broader than deep, and the grainingof the lower half of petal still purple, but less C. splendens, which must not be confused withvenustus var. lilacinus, there is no central yellow-bordered blotch to the petal, and not a crescent-shaped cluster of hairs, but a small dense pad of shortlilac hairs at the very base of the claw, and larger,deflexed, more bristly hairs scattere
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