concludes and reviews each of his orders in succession; 
and in which perhaps are to be found the brightest displays 
of the sagacity which so eminently distinguishes him. 
The difference between NAncrssus and PANCRATIUM lies 
in the crown of the corolla; this in the former does not 
coalesce with the stamens above the mouth of the tube, 
while on the latter it is connected with them for its whole 
length or nearly so. o 
Notwithstanding the present species has been cultivated 
and described by Parkinson before 1629; yet we do not 
find it recorded, nor its figure or description even quoted 
- as a synonym to a plant, in any general system of vegetables. 
It comes the nearest to Nancissus incomparabilis; but differs 
from that in having a flowerstalk two or three times longer 
than the tube of the corolla, and fully equal to the spathe, 
not two or three times shorter ; in having a germen above, 
not enclosed within the spathe; a smaller flower of one 
: colour, and on emersion from the spathe completely cernu- 
ous, oblong-lanceolate segments, a proportionately shorter 
crown less conspicuously plaited and curled. Legoes gene- 
rally four, lorately elongated, flattened, glaucous.  Stem, 
about equal to these, round, compressed, subancipital. 
Flower generally but one, white, about two inches deep; 
odorous, diverging.after complete expansion.from the stem. 
Tube nearly of the diameter of the germen, green, two or 
three times shorter than the peduncle. Lim partly. re- 
curved, nearly equal. Crown plaitedly-streaked, crenulatély 
eroded. Stamens inserted below the mouth of the tube, but 
protruding beyond it, tho’ not beyond the crown, connivent. 
Anthers linear, yellow. Stigma an obtuse obscurely 3-lobed 
hollow point. : 
Mr. Salisbury tells us that the species is found wild in 
the Pyrenees. He recommends the cultivating of it in a 
4leep and moist soil. A very rare plant in our collec- 
tions, nor had we ever seen it until the present specimen 
«was kindly sent us by Mr. George Anderson, from bis 
garden at West Ham, Essex, in April last, "This gentle- 
man has, we understand, the completest collection 'of thê 
"species of this genus of any one in England, U 
