Seto RS 
ALSTRGMERIA PELEGRINA. SPOTTED- 
FLOWER’D ALSTRGO@MERIA. 
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Cla/s and Order. 
HexanpriA MonocGyntia. 
Generic Charaffer. 
Corolla 6-petala, fupera, irregularis. Stamina declinata. 
‘Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ALSTRGEMERIA Pelegrina caule eretto, corollis campa- 
nulatis reftis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis fef- 
filibus. Linn. Syft. Veg. p. 338. ed. Murr. 
Amen. Acad. 6. p. 247. cum icone. 
- HEMEROCALLIS floribus purpurafcentibus maculatis vulgo _ 
Pelegrina. Feuill. Peruv. 2. p. 711+ t 5+ 
Father Feurrire* figures and defcribes three fpecies of 
Alfivemeria, viz. Pelegrina, Ligtu, and Salfilla, common names 
by which they are feverally diftinguifhed in Peru: the prefent 
fpecies, which is much valued by the natives on account of its 
"beauty, he informs us is found wild on a mountain to the 
north of, and a mile diftant from Lima. 
From Peru, as might be expeéted, the prefent plant found 
‘its way into Spain, from whence by the means of his beloved 
friend Astra@mer, Linnaeus firft received feeds of it; the 
value he fet on the acquifition is evident from the great care 
he took of the feedling plants, preferving them through the — 
_ winter in his bed-chamber. 
According to Mr. Arron, this fpecies was introduced to 
the Royal Garden at Kew, by Meffrs. Kennepy and LEE, 
as long ago as the year 1753. 
Being a mountainous plant, it is found to be much more 
hardy than the Ligtu already figured, and is generally treated 
as a green-houfe plant; it is found, however, to flower an 
ripen its feeds better under the glafs of a hot-bed frame, 
where air is freely admitted. eo 
It flowers from June to O&ober, and, though a perennial, 
is generally raifed from feeds, yet may fometimes be increafed 
by parting its roots, which fomewhat refemble thofe of the 
afparagus: the feeds fhould be fown in the fpring, in 4 po% 
of light earth, on a gentle hot-bed, either of dung or tan. 
* In his Journal des Obfervations Phyfiques, Mathematiques, et Botanigue*s 
_ faites fur les Cotes Orientales de l’Amerique meridionale, &c. printed in 17*4° 
