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AMARYLLIDACEjE. 
the gardener of the Horticultural Society. — 24. Baconi, or 
Psittacino-regium, ib. named from my deceased friend Ant. 
Bacon, Esq., a zealous cultivator of plants of this order. — 25. 
Colvillii , or Reticulato-regium ; raised at Colvill’s. — 26. 
Cartoni, or Aulico-Sweetii ; named from Carton the gardener 
at Highclere, when it was raised there. — 27. Lindseyi, or 
Aulico-reticulatum ; named from the present gardener at 
Highclere where it was raised. — 28. Lamberti, or Cartoni- 
Grahami ; raised at Spofforth ; named from A. B. Lambert, 
Esq. — 29. Bonnii, or Hookeri-Haylocki, a complicated cross, 
raised at Spofforth, in most of which the stripe of striatifolium 
has descended from the first cross; named from the Botanical 
Professor of King’s College. — 30. Spufforthice, or Aulico- 
Carnarvoni ; named from Spofforth; not yet blown. — 31. 
Lindleyi, or Griffini-Carnarvoni ; raised at Spofforth ; named 
from the Botanical Professor of the London University. 
Many years ago, when, in a letter published in the Hort. 
Soc. trails. I first distinguished this genus from the plants 
with which it had been confounded, I retained for it the name 
Amaryllis, and proposed that of Coburghia for Belladonna and 
Blanda. I was not then aware that Linnaeus had given the 
name Amaryllis to Belladonna, with a playful reason as- 
signed ; but as soon as I learnt it, I felt, besides the general 
law of priority, that the jeu d' esprit of a distinguished man 
ought not to be superseded, and that no continental botanist 
would submit to the change. I therefore restored the name 
Amaryllis to Belladonna, and gave that of Hippeastrum or 
Equestrian star to this genus, following up the idea of Lin- 
naeus when he named one of the original species equestre. 
Mr. Sweet has improperly given the name Amaryllis to these 
bulbs, and made Belladonna a generic name, to which he 
subjoined a new specific one. This was doubly wrong, for 
with his view' he ought to have adopted the proposed name 
Coburghia, which has been since applied to another genus. 
The first institution of the genus Amaryllis was by Linnaeus 
in Hort. Cliffort. p. 135, published in 1737. The name was 
given expressly to supersede Tournefort’s Lilio-narcissus, 
which he rejected as a compound word. It so happens that 
the few species enumerated there by Linnaeus are of different 
genera, as Sprekelia, Zephyranthes, Nerine and Oporanthus ; 
and it was meant to comprise every thing called Lilio-narcis- 
sus by Tournefort : but he says that he gives the title in allu- 
sion to the name Belladonna, by which several species w r ere 
