CRINUM SCABRUM, _ 
iy ‘ - 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
We received this bulb about the year 1810, 
from the island of St. Michael, one of the 
Azores. 
The name of scabrum (or scaberrimum, 
which is worse) has little reference to any 
quality which it possesses, the slight rough- 
5 i SUaICELy 
perceptible: however, as it has been pub- 
lished with this appellation, it is better to 
leave it, than create confusion by any change. 
It flowers with us at various seasons: the 
blossoms are shewy; the plant grows 
large, and its leaves are sometimes four or 
five feet long; they are excessively fragile, 
cracking with the slighest touch. 
The bulb grows as large as a child’s head: 
it does not increase much by offsets, but 
sometimes bears seeds, whereby we have 
succeeded in multiplying it. 
It is necessary to preserve it in the stove, 
and it should be potted in a mixture of 
sandy peat and loam. 
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