Liriogame. Cl. 6. Spathacee. ORD. 3. NARCISSE®. 103 
very long, regular or irregular even though the floral Envelope re- 
mains regular. Their Seeds are indefinite in number, albuminous, 
with a black membranaceous coat and form a double row on the 
margins of the dissepiments in a 3-locular Capsule. ir Peduncles 
issue from the center of the Bulb, any which appear lateral, belonging 
to an offset i aves are green and narrow like es, 0; 
broad and strap-shaped like those of a Leek, constantly bifarious at 
the base, vegetating during winter and spring, but decaying as soon 
as the Heats of summer commence. All yet known have 2 or 3 trun- 
wers; and 
that profound Botanist Correa DE SERRA, the rays of whose setting 
remarked, “this is a Catholic Genus, for the Trinity in Unity is 
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though it bows down most religiously.” An h to irregularity 
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has suggested the name; Filaments and Style reclined and approxi- 
mated closely into one Bundle; Leaves green, very narrow like those 
of Juncus, yet differing so much, that even a novice in Botany, may 
by them tell one Species from another. C. Tenuifolia has the most 
slender Leaves of any, quite erect, and a regularly 6-lobed plicated 
Crown; this grows wild in the mountains of Biscay, and though 
hardy should be planted in sheltered situations of pure loamy soil ; 
for its Leaves come up in autumn and are often injured by those 
hard Frosts which set in here without a previous fall of snow; I 
first met with it forty years ago in the then unrivalled nursery of 
r. James Gonpox at Mile-end, who introduced it from Holland in 
1760; and though after encreasing it at Chapel Allerton, I distri- 
buted bulbs of it plentifully among my friends and neighbours, it is 
now rarely seen. ©. Obesa has slender Leaves, but rather broader 
than C. Tenwifolia, and spreading flat on the ground immediately 
after they push forth, as it is faithfully represented in some of the 
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of a shining grass green, quite erect for some time, till at last from 
