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HAYLOCKU* pusilla. 



Dwarf Haylocki«. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Amauyllide^. 

 HAYLOCKIA. 



subterran 



bulbo delitente, cylindrico, fauce ampliata ; limbo semipatente. Filamenta 

 comiiveptla, extra tubum (externa breviora profundiiis, interna longiora 

 altias) inserta. Antherce biloculares, incumbentes, versatiles. Stylus unicus, 

 erectus, stigmatibus tribus suberectis, apice recurvato. Capsula brevi pe- 

 dunculo extrusa, brevis, trigona, trisulca, trivalvis, Semina dorso rotundato 



fer^ 



Herbert. 



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H. pusilla ; foliis humifusis, autumnalibus, angustissimis, sulcatis, acutis, 



viridibus; flore autumnali prsecoci, spatha unifolia apice diviso, tubo 



unciali pallid^ virescente, limbo unciali pallid^ sulpHureo, ext^s maculosa 



• purpurascente, intus ad basin purpura striate; lacmiis undulatis, ex- 



ternis uncatis ^ uncise latis, internis ^^ ; filamentis brevibus albis, anthens 



• aureis; stylo in tubo delitente, stigmatibus albis gracdibus, f^ unciae 

 longis; bulbo subrotundo, fusco, parvo.—-ff erier^ 



" This very curious little bulb flowered at SpofForth, m 

 the greenhouse, on the 1st of September, having been sent 

 from the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres by Mr. Anderson, 

 collector to Mr. Mackay, Nurseryman at Clapton, m com- 

 pany with Habranthus Andersoni and Zephyranthes meso- 

 chloa. It brings the western Amaryllideae near mdeed 



arfi«^ With bulb, foliasre. capsule, and seed 



Melanthacese. With bulb, fol 



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that are scarcely distinguishable from Zephyranthes it has 

 a flower which is nearly that of a Colchicum. Mr. Ker 

 has stated, that Colchicum approaches to Amaryllis by 

 Bulbocodium vernum (his Colchicum bulbocodium) througii 

 Amaryllis lutea; though he would have more properly 



Herbert inform 



1° "Mr. Matthew Haylock, who has the care of the eoHect.on o, ™ .. 

 f Pofforth ; and both there, and previously at Mitcham m the ^^^^^^ o the 

 5«t twenty-two years, has brougV no small number of plants,^ especially of 

 th's natural order, to blossom for the first time in this country. 



