Liriogame. Cl. 6. Spathacee. Orv, 4, PANCRATEX. 111 
n the preface to LrN£'s Praelectiones, rs, lac GIsEKE -— that 
ied Botanist never gave more than courses of en llegia 
privatissima, as they were called at U; ecu i wever is a mis- 
take, for DRYANDpER informed me that he had ainsi sociis. along 
with the son of a Swedish nobleman, who paid for it very handsomely ; 
and when we read Philosophia Botanica together at Chapel Allerton, 
he communicated several remarks of LiNN£'s not mentioned by GrsEKE. 
Among others, Lixs£ told them, that when he first saw Pancratium 
generically, as he could fin a - difference whatever, except the thin 
film connecting the filam of the former; and though at last he 
not only divided, but exec several other Genera between them in 
Hortus Cliffortianus, he owned this was for artificial purposes, and 
that their AE natural affinity fused him to take the first oppor- 
tunity of bringing them together. Accordingly in the Ist and 2nd 
editions of Species Plantarum, various editions > a Pintian 
and Systema Vegetabilium, he inserts geri to Paneratium 
had he lived now, to become acquainted with ch remarkable con- 
formity of their Pericarpia not sphtting e regular valves, crown 
by the persistent Tube of their floral Envelope, as ral as their 
gular bulbiform Seeds, and with the wide range which the coronary 
membrane takes through the whole Tribe of Liriogame it would n 
doubt have confirmed his first t opinion, and I think there cannot be 
a question of their being the proximate links of their ir respective 
ers. e greater part of P 
between or near the Tropics, but one grows as far north as lat. 46, 
near Rochelle, and 3 Species have been discovered in the Southern 
e albumin 
naceous or crustaceous Coat, but it is pretty thick in some Species, 
and the peat of im fow I have examined, corresponded with 
that of Ewrycles, in not entirely covering the Embryo, which makes 
the transition from one Section to the other less abrupt. C: 
terpe, the first Genus in my series, rests solely on the authority of 
CAVANILLES, who says that * grows wild “in Hispali ditione" and 
Leav u i 
speci 
of this Order, the former thinking it may belong to Narcissee ; but 
if so, CavaxiLLES has blundered egregiously, and its very long S 
mina render this improbable; whether it belongs to eiae or 
and the orifice of its Tube nearly elosed by the Filaments thickened 
