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Cwnom augustum mid Crinum amabilc being both in flower together ni 

 Ihe Liverpool Itotanic Cinrden on the l'iih May, ISjl), afforded an excellent 

 opportunity uf examining the reeorded disiiurljotiM between these two very 

 similar, and equally noble and beautiful rivals. The proportionate length of 

 Ihe nigh* and Jihtnwufrt, varied eoiisideraldy in different (lowers on Imtli 

 plants, ilu* majority probably being of about equal length. The potafa of 

 nugu&tum were generally somewhat broader ami of a brighter and redder hue, 

 out tin* also appeared to rary a good dealj according 10 the slate of expansion 

 and perfection of growth of the individual (lower. The principal difference 

 seems to enusi<*t in Hie /e//rey, whieh in ainalnle are broader and *liorter, while 

 in augustum they taper oil" more gradually to a point The accompanying 

 drawing was from a plant in the Hothouse of It. ILueiuson Esq. in August. 

 There were twenty-nine flowers in the Umbel, with peduncle* from one to 

 two inches long. The sjmtlie dividing into two broad segments, ami several 

 narrow 0UC8j eaeli (lower having also its own inner snathe or coloured strap- 

 sbaped bracte. As is Hie case with very many plants of this trilie, these 

 hraeles $00n hang down among the shreds of the real spathe and appear to 

 form a part of it ; in many other* lliey are either deeiduous or so simill as to 

 escape notice. 



