Leaves bifarious, linear-oblong, very obtufe, fbmewhat chan- 

 nelled, ratber flefhy. Scape upright, ancipital, varicofely 

 nerved. Spathe bivalved, membranous, encompaffing a many- 

 flowered umbel, pedicles fliorter than the germens, feparated 

 by linear bra8.es, the innermost ones of which become nearly 

 obfolete. Flowers dull white, exceeding fragrant; tube filiform- 

 trigonal, twice longer than the germen, but fhorter than the 

 limb, which is fexpartite, ftellate ; legments divergent, linear- 

 oblong, rather acute, unguiculately narrowed downwards, 

 longitudinally emboffed, fides depreffed. Stamens campanu- 

 lately arranged, from triquetral elongately fubulate, converging 

 at their bales and filling the orifice of the tube, connected 

 together downwards by a whitifh turbinate web or pellicle, 

 which is fix-laciniate, fegments alternating with the ftamens 

 and bifid : anthers linear-fagittate : liyle filiform, fomewhat 

 attenuate upwards, {lightly curved, far flenderer than the 

 ftamens : fiigma obfoletely deprefled-trigonal, equal to the 

 limb. The fcent of the flowers, which expand in May, is not 

 unlike that of the Mufk Hyacinth. The leaves die down 

 before Winter. It often ripens its feeds, which are blacky 

 roundifh, angularly preffed from juxtapofuion, contained in a 

 trigonal capfule. 



A native of Sicily, Corfica, Spain, and Sardinia; Morison 

 fays he found it near Rochelle, buried very deep in the fand 

 of the fea-fhore. Thrives in the open ground when placed 

 clofe to the foot of a wall in a dry fouthern border ; fo do 

 Amaryllis vittata, belladonna and formofjfima, as we have 

 feen at the Nurfery of Meffrs. GmMwoon and Wykes, 

 Kenfington, where our drawing was taken. 



In Hort. Kcw. it is mentioned as a greenhoufe plant, but 

 we never found it fucceed with that treatment. Is generally 

 miftaken among the Nurferymen for Pancratium maritimum y 

 a plant we have not yet found in bloom in our gardens. 



The bulbs of our fpecies are often imported from Holland 

 with thofe of the Hyacinth. Cultivated by Parkinson in 

 1615. G. 



