THE BULBIFORM SEEDS OF CERTAIN AMARYLLIDE^ 369 



from Luckaii and Jiiterbog, in the province of Brandenburg [tTarcke, 

 Fl. Deutschl. ed. 1895, p. 103) ; near Leipzig, in Saxony [lleichen- 

 bach); Osterfeld, in Prussian Saxony (ScJtIiephacke). 



Western limit, Portugal, 8° 40^ — Near Oporto (^.v Boletim d. Soc. 

 Broteriana, 1887); near Coimbra, 1877 (FL Lusit.no. 284, ^u-herb. 

 liort. Conimbriceusi) ; Serra da Caveira, above Grandola {Daveau, 

 1880). 



In England the plant is found on dry gravelly pastures and 

 commons, fairly well distributed in the south, becoming less 

 frequent towards the north, until in the northern counties it is 

 only met with occasionally in scattered localities. It is not found 

 in Scotland, Ireland, or the Isle of Man. As to altitude, it occurs 

 at the sea-level in Kent, and ascends to 360 metres in the hills of 

 Carnarvonshire. Of the fifty-three English counties, it is now 

 known to occur in forty-one ; also in the Channel Isles. In York- 

 shire, it grows only on Grimbald's Crag, Knaresborough, and about 

 the Wickersley fly quarries near Eotherham ; and has not been 

 reported either from the North or the East Biding. In Cumber- 

 land, it is reported from St. Bees and Coulderton in Mr. J. G. 

 Baker's Flora of English Lake District (1885) ; but there is no 

 mention of it in Mr. W. Hodgson's recent Flora of Cumberland 

 (1898). In the following twelve counties there are no records 

 of its occurrence : — Westmoreland, Lincoln, Rutland, Hunting- 

 don, Monmouth, Glamorgan, Carmarthen, Pembroke, Cardigan, 

 Brecknock, Merioneth, and Denbigh. In H. C. Watson's her- 

 barium are luxuriant specimens from Moulsey Hurst, in Surrey, 

 collected by himself in 1861, almost of the habit of M. Mantica. On 

 the cliffs of Guernsey, Mr. I. H. Burkill, in 1891, found specimens 

 of a dwarf form, of which the flowering stem measures barely two 

 centimetres, with small leaves crowded at the base. 



THE BULBIFOBM SEEDS OF CERTAIN AMARYLLIDE^. 

 By a. B. Rendle, M.A., D.Sc. 



[We are indebted to the Council of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society for permission to reprint the following paper from its 

 Journal (vol. xxvi. August, 1901, pp. 89-96), and for the loan of 

 the blocks by which it is illustrated. 



Salisbury's drawings, to which reference is made, were presented 

 by Dr. J. E. Gray to the Department of Botany in 1866. They 

 were mounted in six quarto volumes, but were not arranged 

 systematically ; this is now being done, in order to render them 

 readily available for reference. They form a very valuable col- 

 lection, and amply justify Salisbury's reputation for careful and 

 minute research. An account of his MSS. and collections will 

 be found in Gray's preface to Salisbury's fragment The Genera of 

 Plants, published in 1866. 



The volume of Hermann's drawings, to which Dr. Rendle 



