150 HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Anthericum. 



long since appropriated to a genus of insects, is, of course, 

 inadmissible. 



1. A. serothium. Mountain Spiderwort. 

 Leaves semicylindrical ; those on the stem dilated at their 

 base. Flower mostly solitary. 



A. serotinum. Linn. Sp. PI. 444. IVilkl. v. 2. 134. FL Br.367. 

 Engl.. Bot. V. 12. t. 793. Jacq. Austr. app. t. 38. 



Phalangium n. 1209. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 101. 



Bulbosa alpina juncifolia, pericaipio unico erecto in summo cauli- 



culo dodiantali. Rail Sijn. ed. 2.233. 

 Bulbocodium alpinum, pumilum, juncifolitim, flore unico, intiis 



albo, extiis squalid^ rubente. Dill, in Rail Si/n. 374. t. \7.f. 1 . 



B. serotinum. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1. 294. 

 Pseudo-narcissus, gvamineo folio. Bauh.Pin.bX . Prodr.27. Rudb. 



Elys. i?.2. 64./. 9. 



Narcissus autumnalis minor. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 663, Icft-handjig. only. 



On the loftiest Welsh mountains. 



Upon Snowdon, and other mountains in Wales. Ray. On Crib y 

 Ddescil, near Llanberris, rare ; on rocks above Cwm Idwal, 

 Caernarvonshire, in abundance. Mr. Griffith. 



Perennial. June. 



Root somewhat tuberous, rather than bulbous, with many long 

 slender fibres. Herb smooth, slender. Stem solitary, 3 or 4 

 inches high, round, generally simple and single-flowered ; not 

 unfrequently branched and bearing several flowers ; according 

 to Mr. Griffith, the only British botanist perhaps who has had an 

 opportunity of studying this curious plant in its natural situa- 

 tion. Radical-leaves few, ei*ect, taller than the stem, semicy- 

 lindrical, solid, very narrow; those on the stem much shorter, 

 lanceolate, sheathing, scattered, more like bracteas. Ft. erect, 

 white, veined externally with dull red. Pet. scarcely half an inch 

 long, tapering at the base, withering, permanent as well as the 

 stamens. Caps, the size of a pea, membranous. Seeds angular, 

 wrinkled, of a bright chesnut colour ; nor can I perceive the black 

 brittle skin, proper, as Mr. Brown observes, to his Asphodelece. 



The specific name, which is incorrect for a plant blossoming in 

 June, seems to have originated in a confusion of synonyms be- 

 tween this Anthericum and the Narcissus serotinus oi Clus.Hist. 

 V. \. 162./. copied in John Bauhin's Historia, and there placed 

 with our Anthericum. The plant of Clusius deserves inquiry j 

 for it is not Narcissus serotinus of Linnsus, though quoted as 

 such. Haller and Jacquin, as well as Linnaeus, err greatly in 

 their application of this synonym. 



The following remarks on Anthericum serotinum have been 

 communicated by Mr. W. Wilson, of Warrington, a 

 very accurate observer. 



" The root consists of a bulbous part, adhering laterally to an arti- 



