to Leucojum autumnale, which he calls irichophylJum % in this 

 the petals are acute, not tridentate. 



Every author who has defcribed this plant agrees that it has 

 ufually two, fometimes one, but very rarely three flowers from 

 the fame fpathe, yet all continue to fay fpatha muUiflora ; it 

 appears to be much more conftant to the character of two- 

 flowered than L. vernum does to that of one-flowered. 



Our drawing was taken from a fpecimen communicated by 

 Meffrs. Napier and Chandler, Vauxhall. It flowers, as 

 the name denotes, in the autumn, coming up without leaves, 

 which with us feldom appear till the flowering is entirely over, 

 fometimes not till the fpring; but in moft of the fpecimens we 

 received from Gibraltar the leaves appear with the flower, 

 though much fhorter than they afterwards grow ; much the 

 fame as in Clusius's figure, from which all the other figures 

 of the older authors were copied except our Parkinson, 

 -"who however coarfe, is ufually original* 



