style and filaments. A single bulb of this intermixture was 

 obtained at Spofforth, which has produced a few offsets, 

 piercing the ground, like those of the male parent, at a little 

 distance from the principal bulb, their lateral direction giving 

 the plant a stolonifcrous appearance. Its anthers are per- 

 fectly formed, and the pollen seems to have all the requisites 

 for fertility. Standing in a cool part of the stove, beside 

 Z. tuhispatha, it flowers before it, and probably will succeed 

 like Z. carinata in a lower temperature. It must be observed 

 that Z. carinata, Bot. Mag. the male parent of this plant, 

 is, with respect to the flower only, the plant represented in 

 the Bot. Reg. 902. under the name of Z. grandijiora, though 

 the flower in the figure is rather longer and paler than its 

 usual habit ; but in consequence of the flower having been 

 produced by a a newly imported bulb, before the leaves had 

 shot, and a subsequent mistake of the gardeners, the sketch 

 of the leaves, and the description of the leaves and seeds of 

 Z. grandiflora were made erroneously from a pinkish variety 

 of the small flowering Z. striata. 



" It will have been observed that Hahranthus phycelloides 

 of this work approaches so near in its general aspect to the 

 genus Phycella, as to make it questionable whether the genus 

 Phycella should be maintained distinct from Hahrantlms, at 

 least from the many-flowered, non-expanding portion of 

 that genus ; and that the one-flowered Hahranthi, which ex- 

 pand in the sun, are not easily distinguishable from the genus 

 Zephyranthes ; and it may be found that such species, viz. 

 H. versicolor, robustus, ^nd Anderso7ii, should be removed to the 

 genus Zephyranthes; but an accurate revision of the various 

 species should precede any alteration. It has, however, 

 been as yet found impossible to obtain a mule between any 

 Hahranthus and Zephyranthes, which gives some reason to 

 believe that the division as it stands is correct. Several 

 flowers of Z. striata at Spofforth have lately been fertilized 

 by Z. carinata, and others in the same pots by H.Andersoni, 

 all the former appear to be forming seed, and all the latter 

 have died away." 



