52 MONOCOTYLEDONS^. 



remains of old leaves ; but they are unlike in 

 this particular, that whereas the tulip throws off 

 annually detachments of root, leaves, and flowers, to 

 be expanded and perish, the amaryllis in its flowering 

 is not so dismembered ; the leaves and roots being 

 exserted at one time and the flower at another, the 

 two former preceding the latter. Hence it appears, 

 that the leaves and flowers of the amaryllis are sepa- 

 rately posited in the bulb ; or, if connected like those 

 of the tulip, they do not come forth together. Fig. 21 

 is a section of a bulb of the Amaryllis vittata, imme- 

 diately after flowering, showing the attachment of 

 the old scape, and the place whence the next flower 

 proceeds. 



Fig. 21. 



</, ex, a, central leaves ; 6, part of the scape to show its attach- 

 ment to the radicle plate ; c, c, remains of former leaves ; /, the 

 next succession flower : e, the radicle plate. 



