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PANCRATIUM maritimum. 
Sca- Pancratium, or Daffodil, 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNLA. 
Nat. ord. Nancisst.  Jusieu gen. 54. Dio. IT, Germen ine 
ferum. 
. AMARYLLADRAE. Brown prod, 296. Sect. I. 
PANCRATIUM. | Suprà vol. 1. fol. 43. 
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P. maritinum, spatha multiflora, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, nectarii dene 
tibus 12 non sicniferis,  Widld, sp. pl. 2. 49; (exclusis synonymis 
plantarum indicarum ct americanarum ). 
Pancratium maritimum. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 418. Cavan. ic. 1. 41.4, 
56; (excl. syn. Milleri), Hort. Kew. 1. 411. ed. 2.2.2919. Salisbury 
in Trans, (inn. soc. 2. 7O. t. 9. Desfont. atl. 1, 283. Redoutê liliaa, 
8. Lam. et Decand. fl. franc. 8. 230. Flor. grac. t. 309. 
Pancratium marinum. Ger. emac. 173. 3. A 
Pseudonarcissus marinus albus, Pancratium vulgô. ^ Park. parad. 106, 
t. 107. fig. 5 Noon 
Hemerocallis valentina. — C/us. hist. 1. 167. HI ads quu 
Bulbus tunicatus, subglobosus, integumentis fuscis. Folia plurima (8), 
ligulata, angusta, concaviuscula, erecta, subbifaria, ‘longiora scajo, semunciam 
transversa, glaucissima, estriata, dorso conveziuscula,. acumine brevi obtasa 
terminata, — Scapus sesguipedalis vel ultra, compresso-teres, glaucus, estrigtus, 
Spatha bivalvis, Aplo ferè brevior floribus, sp acelata, lanceolata. Umbella 
2-7.flora v, ultrà subsessilis, v. pedicellis crassis brevissimis. Flores longi, 
albi, fragrantissimi: germ. oblongum, _obtusd trigonum, glaucum; tubus 
coroll virens, ampliatus in faucem turbinatam, S-A-uncialis ; limbus órevior 
tubo; lac. recurvo-stellatis lineari-lanceolatis infern? longè cum coroná con- 
cretis ; interioribus sublatioribys ad latera tenerioribus atgue subdia hanis, 
. tantummodò ex striâ medió extern? virentibus, poo crassiari er 
tern? omnind viridia ; corona ampla, und quartá parte brevior limbo cui lon- 
issimé adnata, turbinato-cylindracea, 12-fida, dentibus gngularibus dqualibu. 
Seam, brevissima, conniveujia, parüm longiora dentibus corone; anth, verti- 
cales, subconniventes. Stylus corollé parum brevior, inclinatus; stigma punc- 
tum obtusum. 
Native of the South of France, where it is found deeply 
buried in the sand among the rocks on the sea-shore; of 
Italy, the Levant, Spain, and the Barbary Coast. Intro- 
duced into our gardens nearly two centuries ago, yet very 
rarely known to blossom in them. We had never seen it in 
bloom, nor even heard of its having been seen in that state in 
this country, till the present autumn, when it flowere in 
Mr. Griffin's collection at South Lambeth, where it had 
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