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Mill. Ic. d. 2. p. 32. t. 97. Lilio Narcissus Hemerocallidis 

 facie. Clus. PL lib. 2. p. 161. cum Ic. 



A maritime plant, which will nevertheless succeed in most 

 other soils exceedingly well, and in very cold situations in 

 deed, if the bulb is planted deep. This may be accounted 

 for by its remaining quite inactive during the whole winter, 

 the leaves only appearing above ground from April to Sep- 

 tember. It certainly grows wild near Rochelle, as Morison 

 states, and where I also found plenty of it in 1786. The 

 flowers are very fragrant ; and as it makes off-sets slowly, the 

 seeds, which are often perfected near London, should be 

 sown immediately after they are ripe, in pots of sandy loam, 

 and sheltered from frost till the first leaf appears, which will 

 be about March or April following. At the end of the 

 second year transplant the bulb into the borders, where they 

 are to remain. 



Eurycles Sylvestris. MSS. Pancratium Amboinense. 

 Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 1419- cum Ic— Brown Prodr. p. 248. 

 Pancratium Nervifolium. Par. Lond. n. 84. cum Ic. Crinum 

 Nervosum. L'Herit. Sert. Angl. p. 8. Narcissus Amboinensis, 

 &c. Comm. Hort. v. I. p. 11. t. 39. Caepa Sylvestris. Rumph. 

 Herb. Amb. v. 6. p. 160. t. 10. f. 1. 



This is a tender plant, native of the Islands of Java and 

 Amboyna, where it grows in shady woods : it should be 

 kept dry after the leaves decay, especially when plunged in 

 the bark-bed ; it will succeed, however, upon the flue of 

 the stove ; and by fecundating the stigma in hot sunshine, 

 seeds of it may be obtained here. It diners so materially 

 from the following genus in the structure of its crown, that I 



