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common in our collections, and I wish that any Botanist who meets 
with it would attend to it: I place it now after Allium, but for 
no good reason; the stamina are inserted in the Corolla, which 
has a double Limbus. Tacca puzzles me extremely : is it really 
monocotyledonous : ? if so, it comes nearer to Dioscorea than any 
genus I know. Polyanthes, I think, belongs to the same order 
with Hemerocallis cordifolia and cerulea of our gardens, which 
are no Hemerocallides, but a distinct genus: shall we name them 
Saussurea? for their spiral vessels are very beautiful. Xiphidium 
appears to me very near, if not the very same genus with Wach- 
endorfia: I remember seeing it at Sion House: it is particularly 
tender, and in this country flowers imperfectly about Christmas +- 
this plant, with Dilatris, Hemodorum of.our President, Argolasia, 
Anigozanthus of Billardiere, Philydrum, and Wachendorfia, .form 
an easy and distinct pordon, Ebisch. should, be „placed before the . 
Veratréa. | 
The fifth and sixth vmm of rre ante the Dicotyle- 
dones: the latter of these is entirely composed of what he thinks 
Apetalous Plants, and consequently, whenever the Stamina are in- 
serted in the Involucrum, he calls them Perigynous. I have already 
- observed, however, that if there be a great similarity in the sub- 
. stance of the Involucrum and the Filaments, it should rather be 
considered a Corolla: and we shall find that this is not only 
the case in all the genera of this class, but that some of them 
have bo: haCalyx and Corolla, of which Quinchamaliun the second 
genus of the first order is a remarkable instance. Hippophae 
among the Eleagni, seems to me to be a real Diclinis, and I 
should guess it ought rather to go near to the Atriplices: I have not . 
yet examined the fruit, but. according to Gertner it has germen 
superum. Daphne Laureola is now in flower; and though the 
Involucrum in this species is green, the Filaments run down it, 
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