Liriogama. Cras. 6, SPATHACEXF. 95 
tacle staminiferous, the former being often splendid and fragrant: 
and what hitherto appears essential to the ndi a Se 
sl; inferum, distinguish Spathacee. | LixNÉ was thoroughly 
acquainted with the importance of all these dictt, but having 
in hi 080 ica th t ; hird 
of no Generic value, when it became necess: to employ them, 
he pretended to keep up some show of consistency by calling their 
Bractes a Calyx; a gross deception unworthy of so great a man; 
for they are situated under the Pedicels, differing in nothing what- 
ever from those of many other Vegetables. A very little experience 
must — any practical Botanist, that the Bractes are often 
similar to the Calyx, as well as of equal generic weight; and Lrww£ 
himself tay confesses the great influence, which the Organs of 
Vegetation, as S capi — of Reproduction, ought to have in all 
our S tic arrangements, whether r great or small, when he says, 
“ Habitus arse lutein est 
Ord. 1. GALANTHER. 
Perieitrpium ovale vel subrotundum, plus minus - Scie 3-lo- 
are, carnosum et demum coriaceum, vel membranaceum, 3-valve 
e 
disco apicis deciduo vel manente. Pe plus minus ineequalia, 
ia aut in uná secundum TENORE irre , marcescentia. 
Filamenta 6, disco spongioso pericarpium coronante pé subulata, 
a petalis et inter se penitus discreta. .nthere foramine versus 
basin angusto d entes, valvis non re us nune rne 
tumidus. Stigma angustum, vix lobatum. Semina 5-13 in sin 
loculis, sessilia, obovata, albuminosa; Tunica nigra, crustacea vel 
membranacea, lucida ; Embryo curvus, eruciformis vel clavatus ; 
mul eo o prodeuns, solidus, nunc e essus. Pedicelli 
ebiles. Bractea 1 spa , interioribus sepe ramentaceis 
us, J. L. Pericarpium coriaceum, iscens. Peta 
parum ^ la 
3 exteriora patentissima, immaculata ; 3 interiora multo breviora, 
acula viridi. Antheræ - 
onibus Caucasi, is udis, 7-10-pollicares. Bulbus magnitudine 
Avellane. Folia 2-4, glauca, lorata. Flos l-rius, niveus. Pedun- 
culus cum June novis, anceps, in fructu dejectus. Species 2. G. Ni- 
valis L. Latifoli us MS. fig. in Bot. Mag. pe 2162. Prater has confer 
3-tiam a Tenore descripta esed cione gh 140. Petalo wno exte- 
riorum ceteris majore 
Leucot Tnm. Pericarpium c riaceum, s 
Petala conniventia, tH HE, omnia disco apicis 4 viridi aut 
vaeilantes, obtuse, longe foraminose. Stylus 
e tumidus. Herbe in ' Dauphiné, EM Carpa thiá, pratis 
superni 
udis, 7—18-pollicares.  Bulbus in aliis magnitudine e Qui Galline. 
