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long, with a limb four times as large, and the germen sub- 
sessile ; indeed it is described in the Collectanea as actually 
sessile. With a little moi’e consideration, before I was 
charged with having made two genera of one species, it 
might have been perceived that it was as impossible for a 
flower, which has a long peduncle before it attains its full 
size, to have none, and become sessile when full blown, as 
for a man to become shorter in the maturity of life; but the 
most accurate of men ai*e liable to such occasional oversights. 
The comparison of two plants in the same state, whether dry 
or fresh, is more satisfactory than that of a fresh plant with 
a dry specimen, in which the parts may collapse unequally : 
I have therefore given an exact outline of a dry specimen of 
Chlid. fragrans in the same plate with the outlines of Cli- 
nanthus luteus, where their difference is very manifest. My 
description of C. luteus in the App. was made from the 
upper of the two specimens of that plant therein represented, 
in which the flower has a most decided slope from the ger- 
men, instead of being erect as in Chlidanthus. The second 
specimen, laid in since that time, makes it a little doubtful 
what the posture of the living flower may be, but the dis- 
section gives an interior different from Chlidanthus. The 
round pedunculated germen gives reason to expect also a 
difference in the fruit. I think the flowers cannot be natu- 
rally erect, but that some of them, in the newer specimens, 
have been forced into an erect posture in pressing them 
under paper. If it should hereafter appear, that in conse- 
quence of any variability of an imperfect cup, they can be 
generically united, I should wish the name Chlidanthus to 
be preferred. I believe, however, that the dentate cup of 
Clinanthus will be found to be perfect, and the genus 
separate. It is evident that they are two very distinct 
species. 
64. Urceolina. — Bulb roundish ; leaves petiolated, broad 
oval, sestival ; scape festival, germen ovate, three-fur- 
rowed ; peduncles curved, flowers pendulous; tube 
straight, slender, cylindrical, enlarged at the mouth ; 
limb ventricose ; (filaments a little diverging?) an- 
• thers incumbent, style straight, stigma obtuse. Seeds 
numerous, small (black ?) 
I. Pendula. — Crinum urceolatum. Flor. Per. Urceo- 
laria. Herb. App. Urceolina. Reichenbaclu Colla- 
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