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SOR-CLASS II. 



Endogenous or Monocotyledonous Plants, (with one seed leaf or cotyledon.) 



CCXXXVIII. Amari/llidecc. 



ZEPHRYA'NTHES. 



spofForthiana. Herbert. Spofforth Zephryanthes. A hybrid variety ; flowers 

 of a rose color ; cultivated by ofFsetts. Bot. Reg., t. 1746. 



A garden variety, obtained by the Honorable and Rev. William 

 Herbert, from an intermixture of two species ; thrives in a cool part 

 of the stove. — (^Bot. Reg., Maixh.) 



Pancratium Amanaces, a rare, and exquisitely lovely, and delicate spe- 

 cies of this fine genus, has lately been in bloom at Belmont Place, Water- 

 town. The color of the flowers is a rich pale yellow, with a greenish tinge 

 at the base of the petals, and somewhat of the Narcissus shape, though 

 much larger, from which resemblance it is called Narcissus flowered. We 

 infer, from what Mr. Haggerston informed us, it has never flowered in this 

 country. 



CCXXXIX. Mdecs. 



In this showy family, we observed in flower at the Botanic Gardcffi in May, 

 Gladiolus Colvillii, and G. tristus, botii beautiful hybrids; at Mr. Cushing's, 

 Watertown, a new species, in appearance like G. i)izantinus, but with smaller 

 flowers, a taller spike, and more graceful habit. G. natalensis has proved 

 perfectly hardy, having stood out through the last severe winter ; this will 

 render it doubly valuable, as it may, with the G. communis, G. bizantinus 

 and others, be planted in beds or masses, in the open border. G. cardinalis 

 was stated, by a writer in the American Horticultural Register, as "hardly 

 yet to be met with in the seed stores in Boston :" and that the bulbs " may 

 be easily procured from Holland ;" this we infer must be an error, as we have 

 seen it in various catalogues for eight or ten years, and the plants have flow- 

 ered in gardens around Boston several seasons. 



CCXLVII. AspTiodelecB. 



TRITO^MA. 



BurchcUii. Herbert. Burchell's Tritoma. A perennial, hardy plant ; growing 

 two feet in height ; a native of the Cape of Good Hope ; increased by offsets. 

 Bot. Reg., 1. 1745. 



A splendid species, and being hardy, a most desirable one to in- 

 troduce. It blooms about midsummer, throwing up a stem, which 

 is headed with a dense raceme of brilliant yellow flowers. — (Bot. 

 Reg.y March.) 



