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Var. i, poeiarum (N. poetar/iui, Haw. Mon. p. 14 ; N. poeticus, var. 

 grandifiorus, Herb, and Kiintli). — An early form, with the expanded 

 flower 3^ or even 3 in. across, and much imbricated divisions. 



Var. 5, verhenenus (Herb. Amaryl. t. 37. fig. 3 ; N. verbenensis, 

 Eoem. Amaryl. 340). — A very slender late variety, with oblanceolate, 

 much reflexed divisions, 8-9 lines long, which are yellowish at the 

 base. 



The autumn-flowering species, with a star-like limb with narrow 

 acute linear divisions, are three in number. I am not aware that any 

 of them are in cultivation in England now. 



XVIII. N. viRiDiFLORUS (Schousb. Moroc.fasc. 1. 1. 3). — Bulb small, 

 globose, producing 1-3 slender terete fistulose leaves about a foot long, 

 at the same time as the flower. Scape slender, 1-4-flowered. Spathe 

 equalling or exceeding the pedicels. Flower with a Jonquil odour, the 

 tube 7-8 lines long, the divisions slightly shorter, greenish, linear, 

 very acute, spreading horizontally, not more than a line broad in the 

 lower part. Crown very minute, the same colour as the limb, with 

 six roundish subemarginate lobes. Anthers sessile, biseriate at the 

 top of the tube. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1687. — Hermione viridijlora. 

 Herb. Amaryl. p. 338; Kunth, Enum. v. p. 750. CJdoraster Jisstis, 

 Herb. Mon. p. 7 ; and doubtless also O. iw^e^e/- of Haworth, described 

 from a figure of Parkinson's. 



A native of Spain and Barbary. It resembles the next in general 

 habit, but may easily be known by its green flowers and subterete 

 leaves. 



XIX. N. ELEGANs (Spach, Veg. Phan. xii. p. 453). — Bulb roundish, 

 an inch or less in thickness. Leaves one or rarely two, appearing at 

 the same time as the flowers, flattish, finely channelled, a line or less 

 broad, equalling or exceeding the scape. Scape slender, flaccid, 6-13 

 in. long. Spathe lax, 15-18 lines long. Flowers usually 3-4, rarely 

 5-6, on pedicels 6-18 lines long, produced in September or October. 

 Tube 7-8 lines long, under a line thick, greenish-white. Divisions of 

 the limb pure white, linear, very acute, 6-8 lines long by 1^3 lines 

 broad three-quarters of the way down, narrowed from this to the point 

 and base. Crown yellowish, saucer-shaped, under a line deep, entire 

 or slightly crenulatc. Anthers subsessilc, biseriate near the summit of 

 the tube. — Hermione elegans. Haw. Mon. p. 18 ; Sweet, Flow. Gard. 

 ser. 2. t. 1 ; Herb. Amaryl. t. 41. fig. 37 ; Kunth, Enum. v. p. 748. 



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