No, 847. 
AMARYLLIS AUREA. 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA Mo Berrin 
This is from China: it was introduced by 
Dr. Fothergill in 1777, and flowers at 
various seasons, most usually toward the 
end of the winter. The flower stem is near 
two feet high, and the leaves above a foot 
long, narrow and somewhat glaucous. It 
requires the stove, and may be increased by 
offsets, which are produced from the bulbs : 
the soil should be sandy peat and loam. 
This splendid family has been a good 
deal tortured of late; some botanists have 
- been endeavouring to dissect it into fifteen 
or twenty parts, each to be called a genus. 
From this we are not aware that science 
would derive any great advantage, unless 
indeed the raising of “ much learned dust” 
be deemed such, of which we cannot help 
entertaining doubts. 
Cultivators have amused themselves in 
hybridizing, as they call it, or mixing the 
flowers of different species, which causes 
