% James Robert Gowen, Esq. 503 



of the hybrid derived from it. In reply to these observations, 

 Mr. Shepherd has stated, that, as far as relates to Mr. 

 Johnson's production of the hybrid, he has no doubt of the 

 correctness of his account, for that he was too well skilled in 

 plants not to know A. forraosissima from A. Reginae ; and 

 besides that, as Mr. Johnson had no stove he was not likely 

 to have cultivated A. Reginae, which would have required 

 more heat than his green-house afforded, the temperature of 

 which was, however, well suited to A.formosissima, that being 

 a green-house bulb, whilst A. Reginae only grows well in a 

 stove. 



It is much to be regretted that the extended size of the 

 beautiful hybrid produced by Mr. Gowen renders it impos- 

 sible to give in the Transactions of the Society an engraving 

 from the drawing which has been made of the flower sent by 

 him to the Society. I am not aware that any figure has yet 

 been published of this curious Amaryllis, except one on a 

 reduced scale, under the name of Amaryllis spectabilis, in 

 the Botanical Cabinet of Messrs. Loddiges, Vol. ii. plate 159, 

 where it is conjectured to have come from the Brazils, its 

 hybrid origin not being noticed. 



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