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which being given to my friends, it is now pretty common ; 

 though it produces off-sets very slowly. The figure in the 

 Botanical Magazine gives a very just representation of its size 

 and beauty, when cultivated, as it ought to be, in a large pot 

 of rich earth kept pretty moist. 



Hymenocallis Tubiflora. MSS. 

 This species thrives with the same treatment as the last, 

 and grows wild in Guiana, from whence it was introduced 

 by the captors of a French vessel, of whom his Majesty pur- 

 chased it, in 1803. The leaves are so much pointed at the 

 top as to be almost cuspidated, and the tube of the corolla 

 is exceedingly long, with a very short crown. 



Pancratium Maritimum. Decand. in PL LiL n. 8. cum 

 Ic.—Linn. Trans, v. 2. p. 70. t. p.— CW Ic. v. I. p. 41. t. 56. 

 pessimL Pancratium Illyricum. Forsk. Fl. p. 209.—Lirm. Sp. 

 PLed. 2./7.41S. Pseudo-narcissus marin us albus, Pancratium 

 vulgo. Park. Par. p. 106. cum Ic. Hemerocallis valentina. 

 Clus. Hist. PI. lib. 2. p. 167. cum Ic. 



I think this beautiful genus might be naturalized in our 

 sandy shores ; a bulb planted by me in the Isle of Wight, 

 among Chelidonium corniculatum, and Eryngium Maritimum, 

 with which I saw it growing wild below Montpellier, has now 

 been thriving for two years ; if, therefore, any one who 

 " comes unto those yellow sands" discovers the fair exotic, I 

 beseech him to spare and treat it with as much delicacy as 

 Ferdinand, mindful of Prosperous injunction, did Mi- 

 randa. Though the leaves continue vegetating through 

 winter, it would perhaps succeed in a more inland situation, 

 by being planted deep in sandy soil, and occasionally sprinkled 



