The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Chionodoxa (Supplement)

The four species of this genus are natives of the Orient. To those described on p. 315, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. sardensis (Sardis). fl. similarly coloured to those of C. Luciliae, but not shading lighter in the centre; perianth stellate-infundi-buliform, the limb twice exceeding the tube; pedicels cernuous; scape two to six-flowered. l. convolute-channelled. 1887. (Gn. xxviii., p. 178; R. G. 1255 B-C.).

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