Empire is easy and frequent. The; present plant is an in- 

 stance, among many, of this nature. According to Clusius 

 the species was brought by the way of Constantinople to 

 Vienna, about 1592; but had entirely disappeared, until 

 lately reintroduced through Moscow by Mr. Griffin ; with 

 whom it seems to thrive in the open border as well as the 

 common sort ; but flowers rather later in the spring. 



Plicatus had never been entered as a separate species in 

 any of the botanical works since the promulgation of the 

 Linnean System, till it appeared in the supplement of the 

 Flora Taurico-caucasica, where it is distinguished from 

 nivalis, by being larger in all its dimensions, by the two 

 curious longitudinal plaits within side the leaves, a shorter 

 peduncle, and the larger green mark of the three smaller 

 petaloid segments of the corolla. Its permanence as a 

 species is said to have been experimentally proved by Dr. 

 Fischer in the Gorenki garden at Moscow. 



A native of the Asiatic provinces of the Russian and 

 Turkish Empires. 



The genus is distinguished from Leucojum, by three al- 

 ternate segments of the corolla being much smaller than the 

 other three, of a thicker consistence and notched at the 

 end ; and from Strumaria by the anthers being inverted and 

 bursting at the upper end only. 



