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A MARYLLIS HARRIS O N I 



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Nat. Ob»i:h-AM lRYI.I.I|>ti/K.— LixDtnr. 





Tiu> plant was imported from Peru, by .Mr. llAMisctf, ami named in honour 

 of htm hy Protestor Limh.i:*, who consider* it i\$ a variety of A: Villain.— It 

 differs however from the true Villain in the great length ofthefiOfreMube (which 

 measures *»£ -inches* from llu i pericarp to Hit* an trie Where the iietnls ili \ idi ami 

 also in briny a wry tender bulb, requiring considerable lira! and the same treat*- 

 ni^nl us A : Smhuiilrillora, whose* habit it seems io approach. Tin- Mowers 

 du not expand widely, and their position is remarkably horizontal. The outer 

 edges of Hie [K'tals, are separate only to the commencement of the iila incuts, about 

 1ml f way down the lube, instead ul ipiitc down to the bottom as in Vitlnta.— The 

 pinkslripes arc far paler, and less spreading, and there is no purple 4111 the Stem 

 or leaves, which are very glaucous. The leaves are particularly beautiful, of a 

 light blue green, having Hie transparent colourless cuticle, extended so far beyond 

 tin* cellular texture- as t<> lock like a bright edge of silvcrall round the leaf. Il 

 llowered at Aighhurgh, u Jor the Jirxt time in Europe* in 182-1/* 





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