By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq, 305 



where it certainly bad been left by Mr. Peter Collinson ; 

 it will not however endure very severe frost ; and as it suc- 

 ceeds well in a pot, may be sheltered under a common hot- 

 bed frame. The young roots are eaten by children in Spain, 

 and are not unlike a raw chestnut in flavour. 



Diaphane Stylosa. MSS. Iris juncea. Besf. Fl. Atl. v. 1. 

 p. 39. t. 4. Iris imberbis foliis junceis, &c. Pair. It. v. 2. p. 35. 



Several bulbs of this species, gathered by Professor Bkous- 

 sonet, near Mogadore, in 1801, were given to me by Sir Jo- 

 seph Banks, which flowered the following year; but none 

 of those planted in the open ground lived, and those in pots 

 dwindled away, becoming less and less every year, at last 

 sending out only one or two fibres nearly as thick as the bulb 

 itself. I suppose it requires a deep soil, with great extremes 

 of drought and moisture, like many of the Cape plants. 



Helixyra Flava. MSS. Mora?a longiflora. Kevin Bot. 

 Mag. 11. 7T2. cumlc. 



This curious genus was introduced by George Hib- 

 bert, Esq, in 1802, from the Cape of Good Hope, where it 

 grows wild. It should be cultivated here in a pot of light 

 sandy loam, well drained by broken tiles, and fully exposed 

 to the sun, after the leaves decay, till September : about the 

 beginning of that month, every second or third year, the 

 bulbs should be taken up and fresh potted, planting only 

 from one to three bulbs in a pot, according to its size. In 

 many collections, as soon as the bulbous exotics have dow- 

 ered, the pots are removed into a back-shed, or even into the 

 open air, under a north wall; and a practice so contrary (o 

 Avhat nature indicates being very beneficial to the nursery- 

 men, I fear some gardeners will still persist in it. Another 



