and is a frequent subject of remark by Mr. Drummonp in 
his observations on the Botany of that district. Mrs. Wray 
observes, that she has herself raised the present Bracuy- 
comE, having blossoms of every shade of blue and lustrous 
lilac, with considerable diversity in the size and shape of 
the flower heads. Professor Linptey speaks of the violet- 
blue and lilac (both here represented) and of the white, of 
all which we have native specimens in our Herbarium. 
The white has the flowers so like those of the common 
Daisy of our pastures and banks, that, except in the single 
row of radiate florets and the more imbricated scales of the 
involucre with a membranous border at their apices, we can 
scarcely point to any tangible generic difference. In the 
specimens we examined, there is clearly no pappus. Dr. 
Linptey describes it as consisting of two deciduous hairs, 
but observes that it is often wanting. 
Descr. Root, in our native specimens, decidedly annual. 
Stems a foot high, erect, dichotomously branched, rounded. 
Leaves alternate, slender, pinnatifid, the segments narrow- 
linear, quite glabrous. Capitula solitary at the end of the 
numerous slender, terminal branches or peduncles, blue or 
purple-lilac. Florets of the ray and of the disk with a few, 
spreading, filamentous hairs on the tubular portion. Ache- 
nium obovate, moderately compressed and obscurely trique- 
trous, with a very slightly elevated rim at the top, but no 
pappus. 
Fig. 1, 2, 3. Radial Florets from different capitula. 4. Stigma of ditto. 
5. Floret from the disk. 6. Stigma from ditto. 7. Achenium. 8. Re- 
ceptacle :—all more or less magnified. 
AMARYLLIDACER. 
HIPPEASTRUM AULICUM; var. CARACCENSE. 
—— bulbo magno subrotundo, foliis nitidis arcuatis, scapo forti viridi, 
sepius bifloro, pedunculis biuncialibus viridibus, germine subunciali tri- 
goné oblongo viridi, perianthio quinqueunciali tubo circ. 3-unc. viridi, 
limbo colore carnis salmonis costis dorsalibus crassis viridibus intus 
prope basim viridi macula vix radiaté, marginibus inferne valdé undulatis, 
sepalis angustioribus acuminatioribus summa 13-unc. inferioribus 14- 
unc. latis, petalis acutis superioribus 14-unc. latis, ima 1-4;-unc. mar- 
ginibus genitalia undulaté ultra basim viridem amplexa, genitalibus 
ejusdem cum perianthio coloris assurgentibus, stigmate lobis longis re- 
-¢eurvis perianthium quante, filamenta vix superante. 
__ This distinct salmon-coloured variety of A. aulicum, embracing the 
_ filaments with the undulated margin of the lowest petal, was sent to 
‘Tuo. Harris, Esq., at Kingsbury, by Mr. Mackenzir, from Caraccas, — ; 
and flowered at Spofforth, in November, 1840. W. H. 
