59 Orv. 5. Veratrex. Cl. 8. Tetre. Lirioyame. 
ts ems narrowed into a short Claw which has one melliferous semi- 
eavity at its very base, the 3 inner ones rather smaller; 
Filaments inserted in the receptacular margin of the Pericarpium, 
and there a little dilated; 3 Styles recurved from their base; Seeds 
indefinite in number, but I have not seen them ripe; is aime 
which at first sight I took for a Diasia, is I believe yet only n Ler’s 
nth 
blished by Luyné, in the first volume of Amanitate es Aosdemicss from 
Sibiricum and Virginicum ; its Filaments are inserted in the claws 
of the Petals above their base ; its Styl es are aaia and per- 
o rty 
yours. have elapsed, since I gathered a living Flower of Anther ricum 
its Petals are melliferous ; ; its diae as os ascertaine 
by the dried specimen are ambigu ing. att: miae equally 
to the Receptacle and base of the S DM Mui ; its Silo $s is —: Stigma 
mitre-shaped; but its Fruit and Seeds, which e certainl 
A its 3 bn 
merous in a 
side at the base; the husky bases of its omg: Leaves continue for 
many years: it is named after EDWARD . who communcated 
many rare Plants to Ray, and was the idis ‘of the Catalogue of 
Plants in Wales, in Bishop Gipson’ s edition of Cawpzs's Britannia. 
Ord. 6. Bvrsocopgx.  Colchicacesm, De Cann 
Petala 6, sessilia unguieulata, nune in Tubum approximata vel 
coalita, regularia, pone Filame menta mellifera, in cunis imbricata late 
ribus non involutis, marcescentia sed in pluribus mox rabido. Fi- 
lamenta 6, receptaculo vel apice unguium inserta, quie exte- 
rioribus opponuntur breviora, regularia. Antheræ vacillantes, quasi 
thecá insertæ; Valvis post anthesin reflexis. Pericarpium superum, 
3- hiscens. 
indefinita, marginibus Septorum 2—4-plicive serie “inserta, brevissime 
funiculata ; in Colchico cotylo succulento semiimmersa, subrotunda ; 
ee badia, membranacea; Albumen durum; Embryo ab Hilo 
tus; in ceteris ignota. Herbe 619 Jure, ab utráque orá 
Maris Mediterranei per Europam solo calcareo. Radix bulbosa, basi 
uno re plus m us rostrata ; Tunice pawe, e o Aena 
rx it~ 
calia, aut caule nune yere elevata, ‘plus minus 2-faria, ikari 
