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Galanthus (Supplement)

The species are confined to Europe and Western Asia. To the species and varieties described on p. 41, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

G. nivalis caucasicus (Caucasian). fl., outer segments pure white, broader, more convex on the back, and with a narrower claw, than in the genuine G. nivalis, 3/4in. to 1in. long, the inner ones obovate-cuneate, with a deep notch and two erect, rounded lobes, only marked green outside in a horse-shoe patch round the notch, but within streaked with green and white more than half-way down. The varieties latifolius (=Redoutei) and virescens belong to this sub-species.