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tube, and pedunculated germen, distinguished it from 
Cooperia. The expansion of C. Drummondiana depends as 
much on the decrease of temperature; and I had one flower 
of it in the winter that never opened at all, though it ripened 
its seed. The comparative shortness of the tube can be only 
looked upon as a specific feature ; witness the great diffe- 
rence of its length in Hipp. breviflorum and solandriflorum, 
Hymen. Carihhea and pedalis ; the pedunculated and sessile 
germen occur together in the most nearly allied genus 
Zephyranthes, as well as in Ismene and in Hymenocallis ; 
and I can discover no feature of sufficient weight to separate 
it generically from Drummondiana. I am indebted to Dr. 
Neill for seeds ripened in his collection, and an excellent 
sketch of the bulb with the scape and capsule, which is not 
enlarged at bottom, as usual in Zephyranthes. The seeds 
are like those of Drummondiana, flat and black. They vege- 
tate readily. The leaves of Drummondiana have a glaucous 
tendency, which perhaps is common to the whole genus. 
Species dubia, jiore nondum viso.— Doubtful species. 
3 ? Mexicana. — Bulbo depresso, foliis glaucis, canali- 
culatis, sesquipedalibus, tortuosis, reciwnbentibus, 
uncial, latis subobtusis. Bulb flattened at 
the top ; leaves glaucous, channelled, a foot and a 
half long, tortuous, recumbent, 3-16ths of an inch 
wide, rather obtuse. Imported by Mr. Loddiges 
from Mexico. I have not yet succeeded in obtain- 
ing a flower from it, nor has it blossomed at 
Hackney, where Mr. Loddiges has many bulbs of 
it in a thriving state, but I think it will prove to 
be a white Cooperia. It has the same flattened 
summit to the bulb as C. pedunculata. I suspect 
the cause of its not flowering to have been the 
cessation of watering at the approach of winter, 
and consequent delay of the growth of its leaves 
till the spring. It is now making great growth of 
leaves in September, and I doubt not that by en- 
couraging them in the winter it will be induced to 
flower in the spring or summer. 
37. Haylockia. — Leaves linear; scape concealed, one- 
flowered ; spathe one-valved, half-concealed, .di- 
vided upwards ; germen concealed in the bulb ; 
tube cylindrical, enlarged at the mouth, limb funnel- 
