56 Orv. 7. CywsasTuEX. Cl.3. Tetre. Liriogame. 
sule has deciduous Petals and Filaments, the latter inserted separately 
in the Receptacle, and mee an hermaphrodite Genus with panicled 
Flowers, approaching to those of some Tulips in the succeeding 
Order of Fritillaree, 1 cannot follow Mr. R. Brown in joining it to 
his Anguillara ; and he even says He it, ig propri Generis.” I 
a much larger Plant, and Dr. RoxsvReu showed me a specimen 
which had as many as twenty-seven Flowers in the Panicle. 
Ord. 8. FnrTILLARE x. 
Petala 6, in cunis ge oblonga, varie mellifera, decidua. 
Filamenta 6, receptaculo inserta, decidua. Antheræ vacillantes, 
lateribus dehiscentes. iiia superum, 3-loculare, dorso locu- 
lorum sæpius vibrissis dehiscens. Stylus 1 vel 0. Stigma 3-lobum. 
Semina numero indefinita, marginibus septorum 2-plici serie sessilia, 
compressa; Tunica fusca, crustacea ; umen durum; Embryo 
nune longiusculus, ad Hilum. Herbe in Europe Asie et Americæ 
Borealis temperatis, 1—7-pedales. Radix bulbosa, figurá admodum 
varia, nune basi uno latere rostrata, Tarasa vel squamosa ; quot- 
annis super vetustum mow perituru cens, Folia quadam radi- ` 
calia m Bulbus sterilis ag omnia, pleraque tamen caulina, 
mune ' verticillata, attenuata vel lanceolata, puc vel autumno evanida. 
Flores nivei flavi miniati pepeni nune maculati, s 
nauseost erecti vel cernui, l-rii spicati vel corymbosi, Deana - 
pedunculum sensim transeunte vel immutato. Pedicelli longi. 
biden l-rie, foliacee, nunc comosc 
Tulipa. J. L. 
Fritillaria. J. L. 
Monocodon. Fritillaria Pyrenaica L. de. 
Petilium. L. Hort. Olif. Fritillaria Imperialis L. 
Lyperia. Fritillaria Persica L. 
Lilium. J. L. 
Martagon. Rvrr. 
These splendid Plants agree strictly in their Ordinal c supr ua 
differing from Cymbanthee, to which they approach nearest, in their 
Fruits and Seeds; while the various form of their Petals and mel- 
e , joined to their Inflorescence, afford eric dis- 
tinctions, hitherto not interrupted by anomalous Speci 
has ith an teral beak at its base, like that of Cym- 
pe and Colchicum, and its sessile Stigma induced me formerly 
insert it in the preceding Order after B«ometra which Lixwé 
its P 
their flattened base, then suddenly bent upwards with a tendency 
to converge, as well as in its very long narrow channelled Nectaries ; 
. and its Anthers continue erect after they burst. In Monocodon, the 
