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BOTANICAL, INDEX. 
culents, especially Begonias, making them unsaleable and unsightly, and as they usu- 
ally feed during the night, they are not readily detected. The best mode of ridding 
the house of them is to cut potatoes, turnips, or some other fleshy vegetable, in halves, 
when they will gather upon them and are easily destroyed. 
But we do not wish to become tedious on insects, and will add only the little red 
ants to the list. They work during the day and usually in communities, and are 
easily caught by placing something sweet where they can get it; or by sprinkling 
sugar in a sponge, and then dipping the sponge in hot water. 
But we have trespassed upon your patience more than we intended, and ask your 
indulgence; but when we commence to write upon any of these interesting subjects, 
we always find it diflicult to condense the article and reduce our ideas into as small 
a compass as we wish, and at the same time convey the ideas we wish to communicate; 
particularly, as we are continually in receipt of letters asking information upon all 
these points. 
THE AMARYLLIS. 
never tire of talking about or admiring choice plants, especially when 
the cold, stormy weather of winter limits our observation to the green- 
house, conservatory, or window garden. But there are some families of 
plants that all lovers of the beautiful acknowledge as royal, especially 
when in bloom; and we have selected the order of Ama ry llidaceae , as one 
of the most worthy of the royal family of plants to talk about. All the 
genera are represented by plants of unsurpassed richness, while there is 
scarcely a species in any of the genera that is not worthy a place in any 
collection ; add to this the fact that the order does not produce a baneful or obnoxious 
plant, so far as yet known. They are distributed all over the known world, but, as 
with other plants, the finest species are natives of the tropics; but without doubt the 
most brilliant flowers are produced by the green-house hybrids that are added to the 
list each year, principally from Europe. The Hon. and Rev. William Herbert, of 
Spofl'orth, England, in 1837 published a very exhaustive monograph of the Amaryl- 
lidacece, which must be our guide; however, many of his genera are considered not 
sufficiently distinct, and have been dropped by recent authors. 
But before we proceed any further, let us review the genera of this order as at 
present constituted, and enumerate some of the principal ones. They comprise the 
following genus : 
Orde/'-Ainaryllidaceae. Linnaus. 
A maryllis, Linnaeus. Type — A . Regince. 
Agave, Linnaeus. type — A. Americana. 
Brunsvigia , Ivor. Type — A. multiflora. 
Buphane, Herbert. Type — A . toxicaria. 
Clitanthus, Herbert. Example — A. Macleanii. 
Olivia, Lindley. Example — A. nobilis. 
Coburgia, Herbert. Type — A.incarnata. 
TTippeastrum , Herbert. Example — IT. ambigmnn. 
Imatophyllum. Example — A. grandifloru / m . 
Ixiolirion, Herbert. Example — A . tartarian . 
Leucojum, Linnaeus. Example — Snowflake. 
Lycoris, Herbert. Type — L. straminea . 
Marcissus, Linnaeus. Example — JTa reissue . 
Nerine , Herbert. Type — N. sarniensis. 
Orinwn, Linnaeus. Ex. — A mericana ami A mobile. Oparalhus. Type — 0. Lutea. 
Cyrtanthus, Aitou. All from Cape of Good Hope. Pancratium , Herbert. Example — P. maritimum. 
Doryanthes. Correa de Serra. Type— A. excelsa. 
Qalanthus, Linnaeus. Example — Snowdrop. 
Oaetronema, Herbert. Type— O. clavatum. 
Habranthus, Herbert Example — IT. angustus. 
Hannanthus, Linnaeus. Type — //. A marylloides. 
lloylockia, Herbert. Type- //, pusfila. 
Pentlandia, Herbert. Type—/*. Miniata. 
Phycella, Lindley. Type — A. obtusa. 
Pyrolirion, Herbert. Type — A. flavum. 
Sprekelia. Herbert. Type — A. flormosissoma. 
Vallota, Herbert. Type — A . purpurea. 
Zephyranthes, Herbert. Type — A. Atamasco. 
Besides a long list that are unimportant and seldom heard of. 
