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features, as far as I know, are not very considerable, and 
their permanency may be doubted ; but it is not absolutely 
identical with the Mediterranean plant as Pursli supposed. 
I received from Dr. Carey bulbs which had b£en long culti- 
vated at Calcutta under the name of Maritimum, and flow- 
ered there freely, concerning Avhich he wished my opinion, 
as he found the European Maritimum, which he had received 
from me, different in foliage, and very impatient of the East 
Indian climate, where it did not flower and was with difficulty 
preserved. His bulbs were undoubtedly the Maritimum of 
Pursh. With me they have flowered once, and increase by 
offsets rapidly. The principal difference is that the leaves 
are much less acute, and wider (I have measured a vigorous 
leaf seven-eighths of an inch wide), and they do not vaginate 
near so high as the European plant, indeed but little above 
ground. Their texture is also smoother and softer to the 
touch, and the glaucous hue not quite so intense, and more 
easily washed oft’ by heavy rains. It is however quite a 
mistake to suppose that the leaves are not glaucous. The 
figure in the Bot. Reg. 927. has the leaf very incorrect in 
that respect. I know r that the plant from which it was made, 
belonging to my lamented brother, Mr. George Herbert, had 
glaucous foliage, and if the leaf appeared to the artist of the 
colour represented in the engraving, it must have been quite 
discoloured by being packed wet. The figure of the Caroli- 
nian Pancratium, in Catesby’s work, is unquestionably a very 
bad representation of Hymenocallis rotata, with bright green 
leaves, and it is stated by him to grow in a bog, as H. rotata 
does, near Pallachacula an Indian town in Georgia, which is 
quite contrary to the habit of the genus Pancratium, of which 
the fibres rot if too much watered. I have not had an oppor- 
tunity of comparing the living flowers of Maritimum and 
Carolinianum, but I can see little to distinguish them ; and 
in dry specimens I observe some variation amongst indivi- 
duals. I have given a representation of the seed of P. mari- 
timum, which was ripened several years ago and sent to me 
by the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Hutton. It exactly accords 
with the figure of the seed given by Clusius, which is very 
correct. The seeds imbricate, lying in two horizontal rows , 
they have a thin brittle black shell, a broad back, a wedge- 
like edge, and a margin a little inclined to be foliaceous. — 
These two species do not lose their leaves in the winter, which 
is an important distinction. The two bulbs from Ischia have 
