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IXIOLIRION montanum. 
Mountain Ixia-lily. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEA. Divisio, CAULESCENTES. 
IXIOLIRION. Cormus tunicatus. Caulis foliifer pedunculis axillaribus 
et terminalibus bracteatis. Perianthium sexfidum angusté infundibuliforme 
superne reflexé patens. Filamenta recta. Anthere parte inferiore affixee 
recte serius versatiles. Stylus rectus, Capsula oblonga chartacea vix oper- 
culata. Semina testa nigra. Habitat montes Syria, Persie septentrio- 
nalis, §c.—W. H. 
I. montanum ; cormo nuciformi tunicis duris membranaceis obscuré brunneis ; 
foliis amplexicaulibus profundé canaliculatis acuminatis 6-11-uncialibus 
& une. latis glaucis; caule subsesquipedali bracteis foliiformibus gra- 
datim minoribus inferne alternis superne ssepius oppositis pedunculis 
axillaribus 1-3-floris; germine viridi declinato, perianthio 1} unc. satu- 
raté coeruleo-purpurascente laciniis inferne plùs minds subalbescentibus, 
capsulä oblongä trisulcá sulco nervato, loculis extus dorso trinervi rotun- 
dato, operculo brevissimo dehiscente dissepimento axe  persistenter 
3-apiculato, seminibus suberectis vix biseriatis testá nigrä ultra hilum 
attenuaté productá angulaté oblongis chalazá rugosa depressä hili puncto 
albescente.— W. H. 
Ixiolirion montanum, Herbert Append. Herb. Amaryll. 125. 
Amaryllis montana, Red. Lil. 241. Labill. Syr. dec. 2. p. 5. t. 1. 
Amaryllis tatarica, Pallas, vol. 3. D. (fide Fischeri in litt.) 
This long-desired and very ornamental plant was sent to 
Spofforth by the kindness of J. Cartwright, Esq. He re- 
ceived it at Constantinople from Colonel Shiel, who with equal 
kindness exerted himself to discover it, where it was found, 
on the hills in the neighbourhood of Teheran. The bulbs 
are very remarkable, looking rather like large nuts with a 
dark chocolate-coloured smooth coat. When they are ready 
to vegetate, the fibres prepare to burst out at bottom with the 
same appearance as those of a tulip. The plants are perfectly 
hardy ; for, having produced leaf in the autumn, and their 
growth having been encouraged by the unusual mildness of 
the first portion of the winter, they were not in the least dis- 
coloured by the snow and the very severe frosts of February ; 
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