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Neither could this be expected. Three varieties are arranged afresh 
in this paper, for which the writer does not attempt to claim finality. 
A wider experience of this multiform* Zrztzeum round the whole sea- 
board of these islands is sure to demonstrate the inadequacy, iva 
the inaccuracy of the varieties here set forth. But this attempt 
will have fulfilled its purpose, if it incites other botanists to a more 
perfect study of Zriticum pungens, Koch. 
DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF SC/LLEZ AND 
OTHER LILIACEE 
By J. G. Baxer, F.LS. 
Tur following new species # Scillee have been discovered, or 
additional information has come to hand, since the publication of my 
Monograph of the tribe in the rot volume of the Proceedings of the 
Linnean Society, page 209. I follow the sequence snes ada pted and 
number them so they can be intercalated in their pla 
Urcrrra, Steinh. 
U. micrantha, Solms. Capsula peprmenr ote petals acute 
ania « -43 lin. Jata, seminibus in loculo 2-3 discoideis n. longis, 
testa nigrescente, Senegambia. Perrottet 784 in sg DC! ‘ 
hg Sy harissa) mascarenensis, Baker, n. sp. Bulbus ovoideus 
1 poll. crassus tunicis membranaceis griseis. Polia 4 hysteranthia post 
Scapum producta filiformia (immatura solum vidi). Scapi 1-2 Span 
0 
breviora. Anthere oblongz, filamentis subulatis duplo brevioribus. 
Ovarium globosum Che 1 lin. longo. Afadagascar, Bojer and Hilsen- 
sick in oS Mus 
U: (Sypharias) Hesperia Webb et Bert. Phyt. Can. III. 339. 
Folia a post scapum ig us 2- ace Racemi elongati densi, 
0 
fe basi dilatatis. Stylus demum exsertus. In Teneriffe lit-— 
toribus, Differs from avenue by its more robust habit, longer 
—— and firmer reddish flow 
st ‘e U. indica, Kunth. eae Perrottet 792—793, in herb., 
sige bbs though he professes to see system in all this chaos, says 
pat: the plants of 7: littorale are so multiform even in one locality, that it is not 
easy to - gawd two tufts exactly alike. He propounds a curious theory, itis 
ifie propriety. Such ‘‘runagates” as the subject of this memoir, which 
‘Ways creeps and never seeds, transgress into the strangest of varietal vagari 
