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make it very difficult to be certain of the limiting features. 
I have never however seen a dry specimen of Phycella or of 
Habranthus, which I could hesitate to distinguish from each 
other at the first sight, or a bulb of Phycella which I could 
fail to recognise as such ; but there is an intuitive perception 
of difference, especially in the look of bulbs, which it is not 
easy to define. The bulbs of Phycella, as far as I have seen, 
are never as round as those of Habranthus, nor do they ever 
elongate themselves beyond their regular structure. The 
elongation of the bulb of Habranthus is not the natural form, 
but its mode of drawing itself to a greater depth under 
ground. I wish I could excite cultivators to try if they can 
produce a cross-breed between Phycella and Habranthus; 
but I do not think they will succeed. 
2. Speciosus. — PI. 23. f. 2. Specim. Herb. Lindl. ex 
Conception, Chili. M‘Rae. Foliis sub-sesquipeda- 
libus (16 unc.), angustis, longe attenuatis, 3-16-1- 
latis; scapo subpedali, spatha 1^ unc. umbella tri- 
flora; pedunculis 1| unc. germ. 1 unc. tenui ; tubo 
brevi, gracili ; perianth 2J unc. campanulato, satu- 
rate rubro; stylo i, filamentis f, unc. perianthio 
brevioribus ; stigmate obtuso. In Sir W. Hooker's 
herbarium there is a flower of this species ticketed 
Am. Chilensis. Bridges. It is not the plant re- 
cognised as Chilensis by Poeppig, which has the 
stigma deeply trifid, while this has it undivided. 
The Chilensis of Flor. Peruv. is clearly an orange 
bearded Hippeastrurn allied to Regium and Mini- 
atum, a variety which can never, from want of par- 
ticulars, be identified. That of L’Heritier, exclud- 
ing his quotation of a Pyrolirion from Feuillet, is 
an Habranthus, concerning which he has said so 
little, that it cannot be ascertained from his de- 
scription what plant he meant. He calls it purple, 
yet quotes an orange flower as identical. I shall 
therefore consider Dr. Poeppig’s plant, which does 
not contradict any thing stated by L’Heritier, to 
be the plant that must bear the name. H. specio- 
sus seems by the specimens to be of a deep crim- 
son. It has a stigma obtuse like that of Hipp. 
equestre, a variation which, as it occurs in that 
genus, cannot surprise us in this. It brings Ha- 
