PLATE CLXIII. 
AMARYLLIS FOTHERGILLIA. 
 Fothergillian Lily Daffodil 
Ima at 
CLASS VI. ORDER L 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
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ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Coroxra 6-petala, campanulata. Stigma tri- {| 
BLossom 6-petalled, bell-fhaped. Summit three- 
fidum cleft. 
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See AMARYLLIs RADIATA, Pl. XCV. Vol. I. 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Amaryllis fpatha multiflora; petalis lanceolatis, 
Lily Daffodil with many flowers in the fheath; 
apice revolutis; genetalibus ere¢tis; foliis petals lance-fhaped, rolled back at the point; 
linearibus, {ub-canaliculatis, obtufis, glau- parts of fructification upright; leaves linear, 
cis. . rather channelled, obtufe, and of a fea-green 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Petal, with its Chive attached. 
2. The Seed-bud, and Pointal. 
3. A ripe Seed-veffel, with the Seeds. 
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Even amidft this {plendid family, Amaryllis Fothergillia ftands confpicuoufly preeminent; the flowets 
have the fame vivid charaéter of refulgence, when expofed to the fun’s rays, which is perceived in 
A. Sarnienfis, or the Guernfey Lily, to which it is nigh affined. The late Dr. Fothergill (to whom 
the botanical world is fo much indebted, for the zeal and extraordinary liberality he conftantly mani- 
fefted, in advancing the fcience) received this plant from China at the fame time with A. aurea, 
A. radiata, &c. about the year 1777. It is rather a {carce and tender bulb, as it is fubje& to rot by 
overmuch wet. It has hitherto been kept, as are moft plants on their firft arrival from China, in the 
hot-honfe; but, from every appearance, we thould be led to fuppofe, it would not perith if kept in 
the Green-houfe, as we queftion much, whether it is not equally hardy with the Guernfey Lily, and a 
native, originally, as well as the latter, of Japan. 
It fhould be planted in fandy loam, with a {mall quantity of rough peat, above the tiles in the pot, 
‘to make it flower. The propagation is from offsets, which are produced but rarely from the old 
* ee rng Our figure was taken from a plant in the Hammerfmith nurfery this year, 1801, in the month 
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