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On the Production of Hybrid Vegetables. 



exactly such tubes, as the part which is called the stigma in 

 Iris and Morea appears to be furnished with ; and it seemed 

 to me that, in that flower, all the more substantial part of 

 the corolla might be considered as acting the part of a style. 



The genus Crinum lends itself most willingly to the pro- 

 duction of mules. In addition to C. Govenium * or Zeylanico- 

 Capense, C. erubescente-Capense, and C. scaberrimo-Ca- 

 pense, before mentioned,^ I have now C. brevifolio-Capense; 

 C. defixo-Capense ; C. speciosissimo-Capense ; C. toxicario- 

 Capense? C. Americano-erubescens ; C. Americano-brevi- 

 folium ; C. cruento-erubescens ; and C. exaltato-scaberri- 

 mum; which last will probably surpass the whole genus in 

 beauty, as C. exaltatum (allied to C. pedunculatum) is loftier 

 than C. amabile, and bears forty white flowers, while C. sca- 

 berrimum has decidedly the finest individual flowers of the 

 genus, though they are not usually numerous; unfortunately, 

 1 have not yet had any plant of C. Capense in flower at the 

 same moment with C. amabile, and therefore have not been 

 able to attempt a mixture between them. 



I have many seedlings from Johnson's mule Amaryllis 

 Reginae-vittata, and I have some mule A. equestri- vittata, 



* Crinum Govenium has very short peduncles, but they are not visible without 

 tearing off the spathe, which sits remarkably tight ; the right name of its male 

 parent, (Amaryllis ornata of the Botanical Magazine, Plate 1 1 7 1) is Crinum Zey- 

 lanicum, and not, as I before stated, C. Moluccanum. The confusion arose, from 

 Dr. Roxburgh's having annexed a drawing of C. Moluccanum to his description 

 of C. Zeylanicum, and the bulbs having been sent repeatedly from Calcutta, under 

 the wrong name ; Mr. Ker's quotation { in the Journal of Science and Arts is 

 therefore right. 



f See Horticultural Transactions, Vol III. page 19G. 

 { See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. III. pages 189 and 190. 



