The Spofforth collection ‘is “indebted for this variety, 
which flowered in the greenhouse in July, to Sir A. Joun- 
sTonE, having meen Dronehy by Lord Napter from Mexico. 
The Hortic. Soc. and Mr. Cotvitt have each a. similar 
bulb from the same source. The genus HyYMENOCALLIS was 
eS 2. ee Ae ee ae 
the name, distmguishing fhe, ene which is confined to 
the W. hemisphere, by other features, viz. filaments flac- 
cid, divaricate, instead of rigid, conniving ; anthers long, 
pendulous from a point one-third of their length, instead of 
short, suberect; stigma .round.and ‘minutely fimbriated, 
emitting a viscous drop in sunshine ; seeds large, oblong, 
fleshy, green; forthe most part: prematurely bursting the 
capsule, instead: of black and shelly: » The name Pancra- 
trom being of the first antiquity m botany, must, assuredly, 
hu rectifying the genus, remain with the natives of the ok 
world, and P. maritimum is to be considered as the type of 
the genus. The pollen of Hymenocallis; viewed through 
a microscope, is rough, as if covered with dust. — as 
The species litoralis was heretofore distinguished by a 
tube longer than.the limb, yariety «.:being much so, 6. very 
little ; disticha had them of equal lengths ; the subject of 
this» article has! the tube an amch’ shorter than the limb! 
We-consider them all tobe Warieties of one species, distin- 
guished principally by: the: adliesion of the: petals to the 
outside of thecup. ‘The editor of the Bot. Reg. in the 
lastentmber, ovérlooking this most important feature in our 
faniostias mistaken it for Dryvanprr’s P. Mexicanum, re- 
ferving to Mr..Ker’s\ figure, in which, however, its petals 
aré free to their base. \P. Carolinianum, Bot. Reg. 927, is 
also erroneously figured: from the Burghclere conservatory, 
with a dark green leaf. We know that the plant there 
represented had a glaucous leaf, and was:the European P. 
maritimum. P. Carolinianum, Linn. is the many-flowered 
_Mexicanun Dryanp: the two-flowered variety of Hymeno- 
callis rotata. No true Pancratium has been’ found in the 
W hemisphere, bit Cdroliniandim has been long cultivated 
there. .The tube oftyia:does not acquire its fulllength in a 
_ low temperature, which accounts for the discrepancy in our 
fig. 1879, the plant having probably been brought out of 
the stove to be drawn. WW. H. | : 
| = represents the germen with one cell cut open, containing six erect 
ovules. 
