194 On the Treatment qfAmyrillis longifolia, fyc. 



of these stolones attached to the bulb, or an accidentally vi- 

 gorous fibre belonging, perhaps, to a seedling bulb ; for 

 seedling Pancratiums, Crinums, Ixias, Gladioluses, and small 

 Oxalis bulbs, frequently send down a very vigorous fleshy 

 fibre of extraordinary thickness, that supports the rapid in- 

 crease of the young bulb. Of course, when the bulbs of 

 Crinum defixum have sunk deep in the loose mud, there must 

 be a great prolongation of the neck of the bulb, or rather of 

 the lower part of the leaves, before they can diverge, but this 

 is merely owing to the depth at which the bulbs are set. In 

 cultivation, the bulb of Crinum defixum, when kept above 

 ground, is round, and of a bright green : in its habits and ge- 

 neral appearance, the plant resembles extremely Pancratium 

 rotatum, for which a superficial observer might easily mistake 

 it. I think it likely to thrive in the summer months in the 

 open pond, and perhaps to flower there if wintered in the 

 stove. Amaryllis Atamasco is likewise a swamp plant, and 

 flowers and ripens its seed freely if the pot is kept standing 

 in water. 



It should be observed, that the plant with erect green 

 leaves, and flowers that have no peduncles, which has been 

 lately figured in the Botanical Register, Plate 303, as a long 

 flowered variety of Amaryllis longifolia, is not included under 

 the foregoing directions for the culture of Amaryllis longi- 

 folia, being a tropical plant that requires much stronger 

 heat and less water, and, in my opinion, a very distinct 

 species. There is however a bulb from the Cape, with 

 leaves of a bright green, but tortuous, like those of the com • 

 mon glaucous longifolia, which will thrive under the same 

 treatment, and is probably only a variety of that species, 



