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obtained the last summer in Missouri by Mr. Eggert, raise the 
question anew whether we have more than one species in the At- 
lantic States. Mr. Watson, in Proc. Am. Ac. xiv. 301, describes 
two species, 7. Palmeri, S. Wats. and H. humilis, S. Wats. as oc- 
curring in Florida. Leconte notes four other species growing in 
the States just north of Florida, of which he writes full and elab- 
orate descriptions, accompanied by excellent drawings of three of 
them. These species he names Pancratium Mexicanum, P. rota- 
tum, P. coronarium and P. occidentale. The last species he assigns 
to Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky, and this without much 
doubt is the same as the Illinois and Missouri plant. As Leconte 
was a very accurate observer and better acquainted with the habits 
and forms of these plants than any writer since his time, I have 
no doubt that he is correct in his conclusions, whether his names 
are to be adopted or not. Whether any of his species is the old 
P. Carolinianum of Linnzus or not has long been a mooted ques- 
tion. The species of Linnzus is founded upon Catesby’s figure 
(Nat. Hist. Car. i. App. 5), deseribed by Catesby as « Lilio- 
Narcissus Polianthos,” and seen by him in a “ bog near Palluchu- 
cula, an Indian town on the Savannah river, Georgia." Nothing 
just like this figure has been found since. 
The border of the staminal cup is represented with 2 and 3 
- large triangular teeth between each pair of stamens, and the flower 
cluster with 2 spathe-like bracts at the base. Some botanists are 
disposed to regard this as a rude drawing of H. rotata or H. ocet- 
dentalis, while others (e. g. Baker in Amaryll. 113) consider it P. 
maritimum, a common European species. Neither Walter nor 
Elliott profess to have seen it, nor is it contained in any American 
or European Herbarium. For the present, therefore, we are com- 
pelled to regard it as a myth. 
Hf. occidentalis seems quite clearly distinct from H. dacera, 
Salisb. (#7. rotata, Herb.) which Mr. Watson in the work cited 
above regards as probably the original of the Linnzan plant. 
HASMODORACE., 
Of this order as now arranged by Engler and Prantl, we have 
only a single genus in this country, namely, GyrorueEca, Salisb, 
‘Trans. Lin. Soc. i. 327 (1815). 
