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Bulb folid, ovate-pyramidal, about the fize of a filbert, — 
; 
_ covered with membranous dark brown coats; /eaves coriace- 
ous, two, diftich, lanceolately elliptic, interfe&led by a longi- 
tudinal furrow, carinately ribbed beneath, glaucous-green, 
variegated with liver-coloured blotches, (when looked at_ 
through a magnifying glafs, are found to be fhagreened of 
roughened by minute pointed tubercles) flanding on narrow 
convolute petioles, the one of which envelopes the other, 
while both fheath the lower part of the one-flowered naked - 
feape, with which they are concrete below; corolla deep 
yellow; outer fegments broader and more reflex; filaments 
inferted between the bafe of the piflil and that of the corolla, 
upright, linear, flat, fabmembranous, adpreffed to the germen, 
longer than the anthers, which are yellow; /lyle green, tre | 
fulcate, triquetrally clavate, furmounted by a triangular ftig- 
matofe opening, pubefcent within, projefting beyond the 
flamens;. germen green, obovate, obfoletely trigonal, three 
times fhorter than ftyle, corners furrowed. —- ees 
Native of North-America, and but recently introduced into 
our gardens. Differs from the European {pecies, with which 
it has been generally confounded, in having a green triquetrally 
club-fhaped ftyle, not terminating in three recurvedly patent 
-foldingly channelled Rtigmas; nor did we perceive any traces 
of the neétaries found at the bafes of the fegments of the Co- 
tolla in Deus Canis, nor of the tranfverfe appendages of the 
three inner ones of the fame. But of this circumftance we 
_ €annot fpeak with certainty, as the bloom was confiderably 
faded when we obtained it for examination. 
Sent to us in bloom laft April, by Mr. Loppices, of 
Hackney, and alfo by Mr. Sauissury, of the Botanic Garden, 
Brompton. G., 
