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membrane (when manifested) annular ; anthers af- 
fixed at the middle, incumbent, versatile ; style de- 
clined, recurved. ( Leaves linear lorate , not exceed- 
ing half an inch wide; umbel precocious, unequalhj 
pedunculated; stigma ii-lobed ; capsule turbinate ; fau- 
cial membrane , as far as we know , never wanting. ) See 
the observations at the end of the article Habrantlius. 
§. 1. Pluriflorre. — ( Filamento , quoad novi , supero inter 
sepalina longiore, infimo inter petalina breviore. 
Upper sepaline filament prolonged, lower petaline 
abbreviated.') 
1. Phycelloides. — Bot. Mag. 17. 1417. Large black 
round bulb ; leaves glaucous, obtuse, |- wide ; 
umbel 6-flowered, peduncles long, unequal; peri- 
anth yellow below, scarlet above, tube limb 2|, 
style longer than the perianth and filaments ; 
tipped with red ; filaments inserted in an annular 
membrane. 
In the character of the filaments in the Bot. Reg., the 
words extends and intends are transposed by a lapse. I 
have placed this species first ; not as the type of the genus, 
but because it approximates to Phycella so much as to have 
raised a question, whether the genus Phycella could stand as 
distinct from Habrantlius. The genus Phycella did not 
originate with me, and I entertain doubts whether it is in 
fact a distinct genus, or only a section of Habrantlius with 
convolute perianth, filaments of alternate length and droop- 
ing style ; neither do I feel satisfied of its identity with 
Habrantlius, so as to presume to reduce it, and in fact I 
believe it to be distinct. The approximation of the extreme 
points in two nearly allied genera, is not without precedent. 
H. phycelloides agrees with all the Habranthi with more 
than one flower that I have had an opportunity of inspect- 
ing, in the elongation of the upper sepaline, and abbrevia- 
tion of the lower petaline filament, in the recurved style, and 
the perianth not convolute, and in truth its resemblance is 
rather in colour to Phycella ignea than in structure, which 
is conformable to that of Habrantlius angustus. There is 
some difficulty in defining the genera intermediate between 
Hippeastrum and Haylockia; for although there can scarcely 
be two less similar than Phycella and Cooperia, the edges of 
the intermediate genera come so nearly in contact, as to 
