and a native of Jamaica ; while our plant is feen to thrive the 

 year through in the open ground, being mod probably a native 

 of Carolina and even Virginia. Such however as we have 

 feen in the hot-houfe, have always appeared to us to be drawn 

 and unnaturally (lender, with fomewhat fmaller flowers and paler 

 on the outfide ; and did not feem to be in their proper 

 climate. In neither fituation is any fragrance to be perceived 

 until evening and during the night, a circumftance that may 

 account for the name of inodorum, as well as the omiffion of 

 any notice of the fragrance of gracile in the work above 

 mentioned. Inodorum was firft taken up by Dr. So lander 

 in the Hortus Kewenfis ; and although we may ourfelves be 

 fatisfied that our plant is his fpecies ; yet we muft admit, that 

 the defcription which the Doctor has bequeathed us in the 

 Bankfian MSS is too general and inefficient, and the original 

 fpecimen in the Herbarium in too imperfect a ftate to fecure 

 us againfl all objections that may be raifed by others as to their 

 fpecific identity ; wherefore we think it fafer, to make the 

 following changes in the Synonymy and Name. G. 



For Allium Inodorum, read Allium Gracile. 



(*) Planta caldario hofpitata. G. 



ALLIUM gracile. Dryander in Hort. Kew. l. 429. Willd. Sp* 



PI. 2. 83. Bot. Repof. tab. 107. 

 A. firiatum. (3. Li!, a Red. 50 ; fpecies ab «. toto coslo diver/a ; 



quod vide fupra No. 103 5. 

 ("**) Planta fub dio vegeta. G. 

 ALLIUM fragrans. Vent. Hort. Malm. 26. tab. 26. Lil. a 



Red. 2. tab. 6. 

 A. inodorum. Solander in Hort. Kew. 1. 427 ? Willd. Sp. rt* 



2. 76.^ Nob. fupra No. 1129 (exclufo Micbaux), 



et No. 1142. pag. alt. Add. 

 A. ornithogaloio- .. Walt. 11. Carol. 121 ? Gmel. Syjl. Nat. 7. 



544 r 1 

 ORNITHOG ALUM bivalve. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1. v. 1. 3° 6 ^ 



cujus Specimen in Herb. Bank/, e Jemine virginiano 



or turn inter Alli a ibi reponitur. G. 

 O. floribus umbellatis, fpatha bivalvi. Gron. Virgin, ed. 2. 



