style and filaments. A single bulb of this intermixture was 
obtained at Spofforth, which has produced a few offsets, 
piercing the ground, like those of the male parent, at a little 
distance from the principal bulb, their lateral direction giving 
the plant a stoloniferous appearance. Its anthers are per- 
fectly formed, and the pollen seems to have all the requisites 
for fertility. Standing in a ‘cool part of the stove, beside 
Z. tubispatha, it flowers before it, and probably will succeed 
like Z. carinata in a lower temperature. It must be observed 
that Z. carinata, Bot. Mag. the male parent of this plant, 
is, with respect to the flower only, the plant represented in 
the Bot. Reg. 902. under the name of Z. grandiflora, though 
the flower in the figure is rather longer and paler than its 
usual habit; but in consequence of the flower having been 
produced by a a newly imported bulb, before the leaves had 
shot, and a subsequent mistake of the gardeners, the sketch 
of the leaves, and the description of the leaves and seeds of 
Z. grandiflora were made erroneously from a pinkish variety 
of the small flowering Z. striata. | 
“It will have been observed that Habranthus phycelloides 
of this work approaches so near in its general aspect to the 
genus Phycella, as to make it questionable whether the genus 
Phycella should be maintained distinct from Habranthus, at 
least from the many-flowered, non-expanding portion of 
that genus; and that the one-flowered Habranthi, which ex- 
pand in the sun, are not easily distinguishable from the genus 
Zephyranthes; and it may be found that such species, viz. 
H. versicolor, robustus, and Andersoni, should be removed to the 
genus Zephyranthes; but an accurate revision of the various 
species should precede any alteration. It has, however, 
been as yet found impossible to obtain a mule between any 
Habranthus and Zephyranthes, which gives some reason to 
believe that the division as it stands is correct. Several 
flowers of Z. striata at Spofforth have lately been fertilized 
by Z. carinata, and others in the same pots by H.Andersoni, 
a 
the former appear to be forming seed, and all the latter 
have died away.” 
