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There are several types of minor importance. The autumn-flowering kinds, representing many Latin names, as G. octobrensis, G. corcyrensis, G. reginae- olgae, are usually weak-growing plants. However, much is hoped from G. cicilicus, especially by the florists, who have hitherto found no snowdrop that could be profitably forced for Christmas. Doubleness seems to add nothing to the beauty of snowdrops. So far it seems to have affected only the inner segments of G. nivalia and G. elwesii. Yellow snowdrops are also practically unknown in America. In these the heart-shaped spot and the ovary are yellow instead of green. Of these, G. flavescens is perhaps one of the best.
There are several types of minor importance. The autumn-flowering kinds, representing many Latin names, as G. octobrensis, G. corcyrensis, G. reginae- olgae, are usually weak-growing plants. However, much is hoped from G. cicilicus, especially by the florists, who have hitherto found no snowdrop that could be profitably forced for Christmas. Doubleness seems to add nothing to the beauty of snowdrops. So far it seems to have affected only the inner segments of G. nivalia and G. elwesii. Yellow snowdrops are also practically unknown in America. In these the heart-shaped spot and the ovary are yellow instead of green. Of these, G. flavescens is perhaps one of the best.
G. attenii, Baker, has cone-shaped fls., pure white, but the petals "crimped into a distinctly large, horseshoe-Like patch of green just below the wavy fold of the tips." Gn. 87, p. 53.—G. Alkinsii, Hort. Two plants seem to be cult, under this name, according to S. Arn., one a pure whit* one. the other frequently has an additional perianth-segm., also misshapen blooms. Doth are scarcely known outside of England. Gn. 74, p. 154. By some supposed to be a form of G. nivalis.—G. olgae, Orph. Outer segms. about 1 in. long; inner ones half as long, pl.mi. white, with rounded lobes. Blooms in Oct. Greece.—G. reginae-olgae, Hort.=G. Olga.
Wilhelm Miller.
N. Taylor.
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