Liriogame. Cl. 2. Coronaric. Onn. 3. HYACINTHE. 31 
approaches so closely to Hylomenes, sad E ina gar have left 
them in one Genus; but its Filaments ar rted in a single series, 
and its Pericarpium has only sib in one Cell; it may there- 
fore serve to perpetuate the memory of a very zealous Botanist, Jan 
Somer, son of a Mi ikes Burgomaster, who introduced many 
Plants into Holland from Albania and Macedonia, in Loset’s time. 
Basaltogeton is distinguished by stellated Petals; Filaments inserted 
in one series at their base and convex behind ; a turbinated Peri- 
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Pedicels, ma a single Bracte to each; the type of this Genus is 
lla ana L. most absurdly s so called, asit is not a Peruvian 
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plant, and a this Haworrs th 
in one described by Lrxx and L’Ectusz, which I have mt seen 
living, the Bractes are erect, and shorter than the Pedicels; in the 
other which is accurately figured in the 749th number of the Bol 
ieal Magazine, and used to blossom frequently at Chapel Allerton, 
the lowest Bractes are reflexed, green at the Leaves, and much longer 
than the Pedicels. Petranthe differs = Basaltogeton in haying 
more elliptic Petals; Filaments concave behind ; a cushion-shaped 
Pericarpium with wag round melliferous Pores bdow its middle; 4 
of its Petals at their base, joined to the gray colour and shining 
under surface of its — it certainly has a look of some Asphodelecw, 
but is very distant in real affinity, and without any joint to its Pe- 
dicels. Puchsekinia I have never seen; it was in troduced into the 
it however for more important characters, the Filaments being in- 
serted higher up in the Petals than those of the following Genus; 
its Style long and linear; and its Bractes are so large that they 
might almost be termed spathaceous, the lowest heiss longer 
the Tagus, in. si similar sandy situations to Scilla Ameena L. next to 
beo it € always be placed in a naturalseries. In that, and 
of Haworrs, which I join in one Genus by the name 
of. Othocallis, the Petals — still less than in Monocallis, and 
soon fall off; their Filaments are confluent into a little Saucer, their 
Style long, and a "little thicker towards the top; their Seeds from 5 
