In our obfervations 6n Tri<5hoWema eruciatum, No. 575 

 of this work, we have ftated that the figure which had been 

 given in No. 265, by Mr. Curtis, for that of Ixia Bulbo- 

 codium, had been done from a Cape fpecimen, and was the 

 Linnean rofea. Since then however, we have affured our- 

 felves, by means of the gentleman who made the drawing from 

 which that plate was engraved, as well as from the prefent 

 poffefTor of Mr. Curtis's Botanic Garden, that we were 

 miftaken, and that that figure really reprefents the European 

 fpecies; we have been likewife fhewn fome of the progeny of 

 the very parcel from which the fpecimen for that plate was 

 taken, and which are dill flourifhing in the above garden. It is 

 however difficult, if not impoflible, to give any fufficiently 

 precife definition of the marks that diflinguifh the two fpecies; 

 in our prefent plant, the fligmas do not appear to be fo long 

 nor extended fo far beyond the anthers as in the European; 

 the filaments here alfo appear to be proportionately fhorter ; 

 both vary much in colour ; but Bulbocodium is perfectly 

 hardy, and grows luxuriantly in the open border, foon forming 

 a large tuft which blooms as early as April ; while rofeum re- 

 quires the fhelter of a greenhoufe and does not flower till about 

 June. Our prefent fpecimen was received from the Cape of 

 Good Hope by Mr. Vere, in whofe garden it flowered laft 

 July. The leaves in both fpecies are fometimes twice or three 

 times longer, and fometimes fhorter than the flem. Cruciatum 

 differs from both in having fligmas that do not overtop the 

 anthers. G. 



Specierum Enumeratio. 



Bulbocodium. nobis in Annals of Bot. 1 . 223. (Ixia.) fupra tab. 



265 ; a nobis in loco primum citato erronte p* 



rofeo habita. 

 elongatum. nobis (Ixia.) Vahl. Enum. 2. 51. 

 rofeum. Supra tab. 1225. 



cruciatum. Supra tab. 575. (Ixia.) Vahl. I c. 

 chloroleucum. nobis, ochroleucum ; nobis in Ann. of Bot. t. *• 



(Ixia.) chloroleuca. Jacq. 1c. Rar. 2. 270- 



ochroleuca ; Vahl. I. c. 50. 

 fpeciofum. nobis in Ann. of Bot. I, c. I. Bulbocodium ; Sot. 



Rep. tab. 170. 

 pudicum. nobis Ann. Bot. I.e. (Ixia.) So/and. Herb. Bankf. 



