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anthers both about the same length (2^-3 lines), the latter reaching 

 out of the throat of the tube. Style 10-13 lines long, reaching about 

 halfway up the corona. Eed. Lil. t. 157 ; Eeich. Fl. Germ. t. 818. — 

 N. trilobus, L. Sp. Plant, p. 417. N. calatUnus, Bot. Mag. t. 934, 

 non L. N. infundibulum, Poiret, Ency. iv. p. 437. QueUia odor a. 

 Herb. Amar. p. 313 ; Kunth, Enum. v. p. 725. PMlogyne Campernelli, 

 P. calatJiina, P. rugulosa, P. interjecta, P. terminalis, and P. triloba, 

 Haworth. 



Var. Icetus. — Elowers smaller, the divisions shorter and blunter, 

 scarcely more than half as long again as the crown. — N. Icetus, Salisb. 

 Prodr. p. 334 ; Eeich. Fl. Germ. t. 830. N. odorus, Curt. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 78. Philogyne Curtisii, Haw. Mon. p. 6. 



A very distinct and well-marked plant, deservedly common in our 

 gardens, extending in a wild state from Spain through the south of 

 France to Italy and Dalmatia. Neither the divisions nor the crown, 

 so far as we have seen, vary materially in colour, being always both of 

 them a decided bright yellow. It comes nearest the typical 'mcompa- 

 rabilis, but the leaves are quite different, and the flowers are rarely 

 solitary, and possess a decided fragrance. It was in order to mark the 

 contrast in this latter point between the two that Herbert changed the 

 name incoinparabilis to foetida, an alteration which, of course, is quite 

 inadmissible. 



IX. N. jUNCiFOLius (Requien in Lois. Not. p. 14). — Bulb ovoid, 

 about half an inch in thickness ; leaves 3-4 to a scape, of a bright 

 green, quite cylindrical and rushlike (whence the name) in shape, 4-6 

 in. long ; scape scarcely exceeding the leaves, very slender, and not at 

 all 2-edged. Flowers 1 or 3, rarely 3, produced in England about the 

 middle of April, nearly sessile in the spathes, or elevated on pedicels 

 6-13 lines long ; tube 7-9 lines long, very slender, cylindrical, scarcely 

 more than lialf a line in thickness ; divisions bright yellow, patent, 

 obovate, f-i in. long, ^ in. broad, cuspidate, decidedly imbricated. 

 Crown the same colour as the divisions, obconical, faintly creuulate, 

 2|— 3 lines deep, 4|-5 lines in diameter at the mouth. Stamens sub- 

 sessile, biseriate, the upper anthers at the throat of the tube, tlie lower 

 three a short space below it ; style scarcely exceeding the tube. (iren. 

 Fl. France, iii. p. 257. — Queltia jiincifolia, Herbert and Kunth. N. 

 Requienii, Rccm. Amaryll. p. 236. PMlogyne minor, Haw. Mon. 

 p. 6. Q. pusiila, Herb. Amary. t. 43, fig. 2. N. A'lsoanus, Dufoiir in 



