never to have rifen toa pitch beyond that which other favourite 
and ornamental {pecies have attained. The mode of “ breeding” 
and treating this flower, fo as to have new varieties, may be 
learned in “ Mappox’s Florift’s Dire€tory” and other books on 
gardening. We have never feena native {pontaneous {pecimen. 
Our drawing was taken at Curtis and MicuixeEn’s, Florilts, 
Walworth. G. : 
 CORRIGENDA. 
No. 717. 1.2. For “ Turipa Breyniana. Care Tupi.” 
_ read“ Turipa Cexstana. \Cexs’s Tove. 
—— 1.16. Pro“ Tuxipa breyniana” lege * Turiva cel- 
fiana.” Sub hec infere “ (bulbus prolem per- 
pendiculariter aemittens.)” ; 
117. “ 2—6-floro” lege “ 1—2-floro.” 
In eodem funt tollenda fynonyma omnia; qua infra in No. 767) 
Metantuio unifloro apponenda; praier folum id € Breymt 
Centuriis allegatum, in neutram quadrans. Horum vice Jubjiuue 
quae infra exponimus ; 
TULIPA celfiana. Lil. a Redould. tab 38. 
“TULIPA minor lutea. Quer. Fl’. E/pan. v. 6, 432? 
T. hifpanica rubra—rubra appenninea fimilis. Cluf Hiff. 151s 
Cg See ee | : 
T. hifpanica narbonenfi paulo minor. Baub. Hift. 2. 678 ? 
Wo. 717. 1. 28, 29, For * Siem 2—6-fiowered, upper ones 2 
: or 3 and fometimes feffile, when” read “ Stem 
1—2-flowered ;” : 
In. the firft edition of his Species Plantarum, Linn&£uUS had 
taken up the Tuuipa éreyniana as a fpecies, merely from the 
Centuria of Breynius. When afterwards a fpecimen of 
the Me.anrutum xnifiorum of No, 767 of this work fell iD 
his way; fancying it to be the fame; in the fecond edition 
his work he inferted a cefcription, with a fpecific charact 
adapted to that vegeiable, adding Breynius’s figure aS 9 
fynonym. But, upon a critical examination, it will be clearly 
perceived that thefe plants are not only {pecifically, but 
even generically diftin& from each other; although, from 
the ‘badnefs of the plate and defcription, it may be. difficu 
to fay precifely what plant Breynius had in view. Pro 
bably- an Hyproxis! Thus, in the fecond edition, a ne¥ 
Species is, eftablifhed, and one that belongs to Metanr 
THiM, notto Tuxipa; to which laft, the plant that we, 7 
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