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jongifolium, and the sn of, its. scape seems to indicate, — 
that it flowers likewi8e during’ inundations. C. venustum, 
with obtuser leaves, pager in growth and habit. We 
have not yet seenmits?flower. “The Birnian Crina are not 
easily cultivated. “Macrocarpon, which grows near Ran- 
goon, with very long narrow stiff leaves, laciniz white, 
rather broader thafi those of toxicariaia, and erythrophi- 
. lum, about.the size of longifolium, with deep, red leaves, | 
* are botli lost at Calcutta ; three bulbs of procerum perished — 
at Spofforth, being impatient of wet amongst the leaves. 
_ The more we consider the nice gradations by which the 
species of this extensive genus slide into eaeh other, and 
~ the facility'with which the most remote interbreed, the more »- 
© difficulty we shall find in detiding’what features constitute . 
a specific difference, and the more we shall be led to view — 
_ the whole genus, incl s “a 
with Amaryllis, as having b 
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