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leaved Nectary: they do not come out so soon by a month. It is 

 called by Mr. Curtis, Spring Snow-Jlake. It is a native of Italy, &c. 



The second species has a bulb the size of a Chesnut, somewhat 

 ovate, outwardly pale-brown, inwardly white; coats numerous, thin, 

 and closely compacted. But Miller asserts, that it is nearly as large 

 as that of the Common Daffodil, and very like it in shape: that the 

 leaves also are not unlike those of the Daffodil, more in number than 

 in the first, and keeled at the bottom, where they fold over each 

 other, and embrace the stalk: the leaves are about a foot and half 

 in length, upright, nearly linear, almost an inch in breadth, obtuse; 

 the lower ones shortest : the scape a little higher than the leaves, 

 hollow, slightly flatted, two-edged, a little twisted, one side some- 

 times obtuse, the other acute: the peduncles for the most part five 

 from the same sheath, each supporting a single flower, angular, and 

 of unequal lengths: the flowers are pendulous, growing all one way 

 having little scent: the petals are white, finely grooved within, not at 

 all uniting at bottom; the tips thickish, a little puckered, and marked 

 with a green spot. The flowers appear at the end of April or the 

 beginning of May, and there is a succession of them during three 

 weeks, or longer in cool weather. It is a native of Hungary, &c. 



To distinguish it from Galanthus, Mr. Curtis names it Summer 

 Snow-flake; and in gardens it is known by the name of Great Summer 

 Snow-drop; Late or Tall Snow-drop. 



The third has a thick bulb for the size of the plant, composed of 

 many glutinous coats, bitter, covered with a whitish membrane: the 

 scape slender, brownish, a hand in height, supporting two or three 

 small white flowers (sometimes only one), hanging down, having no 

 smell. It is distinguished by its four or five capillary leaves, which 

 begin to spring up after the flower is past, when the seeds are ripen- 

 ing, and sometimes after the heads are ripe. They abide all the 

 winter and spring following, and wither away in the beginning of 

 summer; leaving the scape to appear naked: the flowers are a little 

 reddish at the bottom next the stalk. It is a native of Portugal, 

 flowering in September. 



The fourth has a roundish white bulb, less than a hazel nut: the 



