in pastures at Little Stonham : Mrs. Cobbot.o, in FI. Brit.— Surrey ; near 
Wooking : Mr. Salisbuh v, in With. Bot. Ait. — Westmoreland ; In a small 
Island in the river about three miles south of Kendal, in the Dam of the Gun- 
powder Mill : Mr. Gough, in FI. Brit. 
Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 
Root a tunicated (coated), somewhat egg-shaped bulb, of a pale 
brown colour on the outside, white within, with many long simple 
fibres. Leaves numerous, all radical (growing from the root), about 
18 inches or 2 feet long, and three quarters of an inch broad, up- 
right, nearly strap-shaped, of a deep green colour, blunt, somewhat 
concave above, bluntly keeled below, all inclosed, with the scape 
fstalkj in one or more very short membranous, abrupt, entire, 
radical stipulas. Scape fstalkj upright, about as long as the leaves, 
2-edged, hollow, a little twisted, bearing at the top 4 or more 
drooping, white, nearly scentless, bell-shaped flowers, each on a 
long, angular pedicel f partial flower-stalk ) , all bursting from a 
solitary, spear-shaped, upright, sheathing bractea ( spatha of Linn.). 
Petals egg-shaped, thickish at the tip, and marked with a green 
spot. Anthers blunt, with 2 little cavities. Capsule somewhat in- 
versely egg-shaped. Seeds several, large, nearly round, black, 
and glossy. 
It is common in most gardens, and is well adapted for ornament- 
ing the borders of shrubberies. 
The plants which compose the Natural Order Amakyui'ch are all mono- 
cotyledonous, (having only one seed-lobe), with bulbous (very seldom fibrous) 
roots, and generally sword-shaped, or strap-shaped leaves, with parallel veins. 
Their flowers are usually accompanied by spathaceous bractece ( sheathing 
floral-leaves ) , and are amongst the most splendid and magnificent in the vege- 
table kingdom, (witness the exotic Genera Amary'llis, Nerine, Brunsvigia, 
Crinum, Pancratium, and Dorydnth.es J. The Perian'thium ( calyx and 
corona confounded) is superior, regular, and coloured, of 6 pieces (petals of 
Linn.eus), the 3 outer of which overlap the 3 inner. The stamens, which are 
six in number, are inserted upon the pieces of the perianthium ; their filaments 
are either free, as in most instances, or they are connected by their dilated bases 
into a kind of cup, as in the genus Pancratium ; sometimes an additional 
series of barren stamens is present, often forming a cup which surrounds the 
tube of the perianthium, as in the genus Narcissus. The anthers burst in- 
wardly. The ovary (germen) is 3-celled, the cells manv-seeded, or some- 
times only 1- or 2-seeded. The style is simple, with a 3-lobed stigma. The 
fruit is either a 3-celled, 3-valved capsule, with a loculicidal dehiscence (the 
dissepiments, or partitions, situated on the middle of the inner surface of the 
valves), or a 1- to 3-seeded berry. The seeds have either a thin and mem- 
branous, or thick and fleshy testa ; a fleshy albumen, and nearly straight em- 
bryo, the radicle of which is turned towards the hilum or scar. — The only 
British Genera in this order are, 
Gala'nthus, Plate 33 — Leuco'jum, Plate 55. — and Narci'ssus. 
The superior perianthium will distinguish the plants of this Natural Order 
from those of the orders Melanthclceee, Liliacea;, (see p. 1.) Asphodeleee, 
(see p. 41), and Smilacece ; all of which have an inferior perianthium. 
