anew Genus of Narcisseae. 103 



Register for the month of January 1824- ; consequently after 

 you had published my descriptions in p. 440 of your Decem- 

 ber Magazine : but a figure of one of them, or a plant allied 

 to them, without name, appeared in the Register for the 

 month of December, which however, without dissection or de- 

 scription, could not be determined. Old Parkinson, in his 

 way, enumerates six species. 



As to the names of these plants, I never heard of or saw 

 either of them until they were published as above in January. 



And with respect to these plants forming a good genus, I have 

 no fear on that score, nor even of the admissibility (into the 

 classic group to which it belongs) of the name Diomedes; because 

 Diomedea is one syllable longer, and because many generic 

 names are now in print which differ in gender only : and even 

 these must pass* in the vast sciences of natural history, where 

 such inconceivable numbers of generic and subgeneric ap- 

 pellations are wanted ; not fewer than ten thousand of which 

 will be occupied by Entomology alone ! 



As the above is but a very meagre communication, gentle- 

 men, I will endeavour to make it more worthy of your at- 

 tention, by subjoining to it a botanical description of what / 

 consider to be another new genus of Narcissea?, of two species, 

 and which, from its remarkable green starry flowers, I call 

 Chloraster, and remain 



Your most obedient servant, 

 Queen's Elm, Chelsea, Feb. 9,1824. A. H. HaworTH. 



Chloraster. Narcissus auctorum. 



Spatha 1 — pluriflora. Corolla; laciniae lineares in gracillimam 

 stellam patentes. Corona minima, integra, vel hexa- 

 petalo-partita, singulis partibus incur vatim cochleatis 

 incrassatis. Filamenta oraniiio tubo adnata, 3, tubo 

 breviora, 3 ejus longitudine. 



Herbal submaritimae Africanae bulbosae nudiflorae 

 unifoliae, viridibus floribus autumnalibus, Jonquillarum 

 habitu odoreque, alio modo florendi. 



Specierum Characteres. 

 fissiis. Chl. (The cloven-cupped) corona hexapetaloidea. 

 1. Narcissus viridiflorus. Bot. Mag. 1. 1687. 



Descriptio. Gracilis omni parte. Scapus dodrantalis 

 aliquantillum compressus basi crassitie calami corvini 



• Surely they might and ought to be avoided, as names may be varied 

 ad infinitum. — Edit. 



hcvigalus 



