By the Hon. and Rev. William Herbert. 39 



of the Amaryllideae, as given in the Botanical Magazine* and 

 I am now persuaded, from the appearance of the plant, that 

 the seed must have been fertilized several days after the ap- 

 plication of the dust of Pancratium, by the accidental escape 

 of the dust of Crinum canaliculatum. 



I was desirous, last August, of impregnating a mule Gla- 

 diolus with the dust of Watsonia fulgens and of Amaryllis 

 crocata, thinking that the true occidental Amaryllises were, 

 from the form of their stigma, capsule, and seeds, more 

 likely to breed with Gladiolus, than with those species of the 

 Crinum family, which have been confounded with them 

 under the name of Amaryllis. The Gladioli in pots having 

 done flowering, I chose the two last flowers that remained 

 to expand in the open borders, having destroyed the buds 

 that immediately preceded them, so that at the time of 

 their expansion, there was no other fresh Gladiolus flower, 

 nor any appearance of fresh pollen in the garden. The 

 result is, that both flowers produced small distorted pods, 

 containing a few seemingly good seeds. I have sown 

 them ; but I expect to find that they were fecundated by 

 some particles of Gladiolus dust, from the half withered 

 flowers, brought by the wind or bees, because I have no ex- 

 pectation of being able to intermix genera which are really 

 distinct, and the experiment was made with a view to a 

 negative -f result. 



* Botanical Magazine, 2113, 2121, and 2124. 



f February 9, 1 820. The various mule Gladiolus seeds obtained last summer, 

 were sown in separate pots, and placed in the stove All except those supposed 

 to have been produced by the dust of Watsonia and Amaryllis, sprouted long 

 ago ; three or four of those from Watsonia began to grow sometime after ; but 



