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glass, exposed to all the heat our sun would produce. At the 

 end of September, the bulbs were examined and repotted, 

 great care having been taken that the fresh soil was quite 

 dry ; for they push at this season with very little moisture 

 indeed, and the later that can be deferred in our autumn 

 the better. 



Galaxia Obtusa. MSS. Galaxiaovata. Kerin. inBot.Rep. 

 n. 94. cum Ic.—Jacq. Ic. v. 2. t. 291. fig. superior.— Thunb 

 Nov. Gen. 2. p. 51. cum Ic. 



Introduced by George Hibbert, Esq. in 1779, but soon 

 after lost at Clapham ; nor have I met with it in any collec- 

 tion since. 



Galaxia Mucronularis. MSS. Galaxia ovata. Jacq. 

 Ic. v. 2. t. 291. fig. inferior ad sinistram. 



This flowered at Chapel-Allerton in 1797, being among a 

 parcel of bulbs which had been given to me, the year before, 

 by Sir Joseph Banks. 



Galaxia Versicolor. MSS. Galaxia ovata. Jacq. Ic. 

 v. 2. t. %§\.fig. inferior ad dextram. 



In no genus can any species be more distinct than these two, 

 which Th un berg and Jacquin make varieties : thisflowers 

 the earliest, and encreases plentifully by little bulbs, not 

 formed at the root, but in the axils of the leaves. 



Galaxia Graminea. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 1292. cum Ic. 

 —Jacq. Collect, v. 2. p. 366. t. 18./. 2.— -Thunb. Nov. Gen. 2. 

 p. 51. cum Ic. Ixia fugacissima. Linn. Suppl. p. 94. 



I purchased this, and the preceding species, of Messrs. Lee 

 and Kennedy, in 1800: it also forms bulbs, about the size 

 and figure of an Oat, in the axils of the leaves ; and I could 

 not obtain seeds either of it, or of Versicolor ; but from 



