120 ORD. 5. AMARYLLIDER.- Cl. 6. Spathacee. Liriogame. 
Species that great man joined to it, except Sternbery gia, Which is 
cluded by its black crustaceous Seeds to say nothing of its Stipulation. 
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tenuated, but often dilated: or knobbed there; 3rdly in the Corolla 
remaining either fresh and undecayed at its base, or entirely with- 
. ered, upon the Pericarpium, till that is ripe; 4thly and what I deem 
most essential, in their bulbiform flesh , hitherto accompanied 
with a solid Peduncle ; so tha t when we cannot obtain the former, a 
so dark as to be ine black, but komisie dark ay be al 
ways known by fheir thick fleshy coat hitherto in Amaryllidew de- 
void of Albumen ; if only a few in each cell, they are generally large 
and irregularly shaped, ot unlike small Po tatoes. In the 923rd 
number of the Botanical Magazine, Mr. J. B. Ker remarks that these 
** Masse carnosæ” are not gei to be met with i in t the e Species 
which produce them, saying ** pcne ; 
e 1178th number of that work, he asks if eue not 
be “probably as some others of the Genus an accidental and alin "nate 
mode kd f Pruetifeation ;" and even so lately as in the ~~ volumo of 
erma iginn After a gréat ioy en miris of our 
nurserymen and mil iae ied to my own observation during 40 
years, I do ler bodteló. to ‘reply, that all those species which have 
these bulbiform Seeds, never produce any other sort ; neither are they 
peculiar to Amaryllidee, but oceur in the preceding as well as fol- 
lowing rs of Puneratee and Strumaree ; here however they 
gin and terminate for aught I know to the contrary, nor have I y 
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