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Nu Oimmi; AMAItYMJDEJL— Lis 



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Fkom a bulb sent from Rii» liy William ll.wtnisov* Ksu* In tin* Itotaitical Register ■ 

 No, r*,V2, is a figure of the minor variety of this Lily, which appears to have been 

 the plant most frequently cultivate^ ami best known under tlic name of Amaryllu 

 I'urpiin 'a. Tin* Author of tliu Itutmiicnl Register savs, ** the large variety «. (of 

 which the present subject is a line specimen) bos the (lowers nearly twice the size 

 of £j find is very scarce in our collections. The webbed intervals which connect the 

 lower put of the tegmenta at the faux, are also trans) Kirent, instead of opaipie us 



in the minor-" Thews membrane* arc ll gin to ally ibis plant to the Pniicratiums; 



Mr* Hkkiieki makes ;i a distinct genus under the name i»f f*itflota t winch he says 

 WAS given by 31 r. Saijsihrv, and has been adopted in France, The appellation 

 Purpurea can l>e merited solely by the strong purple- mark at the Imsc of the 

 flower Mem find leaver; the Bower being* M it is very appropriately termed in 

 CtitTis Magazine, * 4 Cinnabar*colourr without the slightest tinge of purple. 



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