that our figure of hyacinthoides (No. 1140) does not correspond 
very well with the character in Arron’s Hortus Kewensis, nor 
indeed with the specimen preserved in the Banksian herbarium, 
from which that character was drawn. It agrees, however, 
with the description by Linnaus of that species, as adopted in 
the 12th edition of the Systema Vegetabilium, from Govan. 
To us it appears probable, that our present plant was the 
species had in view, when the character of hyacinthoides was 
drawn up for the Hortus Kewensis, and this is confirmed by 
an inspection of the above-mentioned specimen in the Banksian 
Herbarium. | 
Communicated by Rosert Barctay, Esq. of Bury Hill, 
in March last, who raised it from bulbs sent from Spain, last 
year, by Dr. Snuter. It was treated as a Greenhouse plant, 
but removed for a few days into the stove at the time when | 
it shewed for bloom. Cultivated in the open air, its season 
of flowering would of course be later. May is the time 
mentioned in the Hortus Kewensis, and from the same au- 
thority we learn that it was introduced by the late Dr. Gray, 
of the British ‘Museum. 
