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know of nd generic distinction at preserit whitch can separate it 
from aurea. 
* The European sorts undoubtedly form a distinct genus, 
but they have not been sufficiently examined; atvd those Ameri- 
can and other species, which are only known by impertect de- 
Seriptions, belong probably to more than one additional genus. 
The locality of growth which I have poirited out ; the fa- 
eility with which I have raised hybrid Crinums, Amaryilises, 
and Galateas, and my total failure in every attempt, during the 
last five years, to intermix the genera as I have above divided 
them, which proves a great difliculty, if not an impossibility, 
of blending them, afford the strongest confirmation of the 
accuracy of the definitions. JI have little hesitation in saying 
that A. vittata, of which the natural abode is not ascertained, 
must be American ; and with the same view I had considered 
A. purpurea long before I had examined its flower, as a plant 
Which, from its seed and place of growth, must prove to 
be a Cyrtanthus ; and I was afterwards much gratified in 
finding its filaments inserted so high up in the corolla, as to 
make it surprising how it could have been figured as an 
Amaryllis ; because it is most satisfactory to find experience 
confirm the fact which had been foretold by theory. 
“ With a view to species not yet ascertained, it might have 
been safer, in the definitions of Cosurcia, Gatarea, and 
Lyconis, to have written filaments alternately longer, or at 
least corresponding alternately ; for the length appears to 
be regulated by the corresponding position of their bases, 
which is the point of real importance ; but as yet I have seen. 
no necessity for the addition. It must be observed, that the 
stigma of Amaryllide fails to expand when the temperature 
is too low, which, as well as its progress on successive days, 
is likely to create error in botanical descriptions.” 
Hersert Mss. 
