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 Amaryllis Lutea. Yellow Amaryllis* 



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 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Corolla hexapetaloidea, irregularis. Filament a fauci tubi inferta, 

 declinata, inaequalia proportione vel dire&ione. Linn. Fit. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



AMARYLLIS lutea fpatba indivifa obtufa, flore feffili, co- 

 rolla campanulata ere£ta bafi breve tubulofa, 

 ftaminibus ere&is, alternis brevioribus. Linn, 

 Ft I. Ait. Kew. v. 21. p. 415. 



COLCHICUM luteum majus. Baub. Pin. p. 69. 



NARCISSUS autumnalis major. The greater Autumne or 

 Winter DafFodilL Park. Parad. p. 77. 75./. 7. 



The Amaryllis lutea is a hardy perennial bulbous plant, a 

 native of Spain, and other of the more Southern parts of 

 Europe, and was cultivated in our Gardens in the time of Ge- 

 rard, and Parkinson. 



Flora, who commences her revolutionary reign, by enlivening 

 the flower border with the Spring Crocus, and its numerous 

 varieties, terminates it with flowers equally pleafmg, and of 

 fimilar hues ; thus we have the prefent plant, the Saffron 

 Crocus, and the Colchicum, flowering nearly at the fame time,, 

 from the end of September, through October, and fometimes 

 part of November. 



Similar as the Amaryllis is to the yellow Spring Crocus, in 

 the colour, and form of its flowers, it differs obvioufly in the 

 number of its ftamina, the breadth of its leaves, and the fize 

 and colour of its root. 



Authors defcribe it as varying in fize, in the breadth of its 

 leaves, the height of its flowers, and multiplication of the 

 Corolla. 



The Dutch Florifts export it under the title of yellow 

 Colchicum, following the name of fomc of the old writers. 



It fucceeds beft in a foil moderately moift, in which it 

 increafes conftderably by offsets, and flowers to the moft 

 advantage when the roots have remained for fome few years 

 undifturbed in the fame fpot. 



