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been several years at Spoffortli without producing an offset, 
but the broad-leaved or Carolina plants increase rapidly. I 
cannot perceive the difference of anther mentioned by Mr. 
Ker, and indeed such a difference, if strongly marked, would 
be scarcely consistent with generic identity. The anthers of 
both are what I call suberect, that is neither incumbent nor 
quite erect. In dried specimens the posture becomes much 
disarranged. The attachment is nearer the middle than in 
Hymenocallis. 
3. Canariense. — One bulb of this species was brought to 
Europe by Dr. Schmidt, and found its way into the collection 
of Mr. Griffin, where it flowered and ripened seeds, which, 
as Mr. Griffin told me, had some tendency to a foliaceous 
margin. I know not into whose hands the bulb passed after 
Mr. Griffin’s death, nor have I heard of any other having 
been imported. It lost its leaves in the winter like Illyricum, 
with which it agrees in being pedunculated. 
4. Illyricum. — This bulb, which is often sold erroneously 
as imported from Holland under the name of Maritimum, is 
perfectly hardy, flowering and ripening seed freely in our 
gardens : but the seedlings are of slow progress, and do not 
flower till they are many years old. It likes a rich and even 
manured soil. Its seeds are round-oblong, covered with a 
pretty hard black shell, and have an elevated white raphe, 
while those of Maritimum are more foliaceous, wedge-shaped 
with a round back, and the hilum a white speck without any 
elevated raphe. I communicated the seeds of both to a dis- 
tinguished botanist, without mentioning to what plants they 
belonged, and asked whether he should suppose they were of 
one genus or not, and the answer was he should rather sup- 
pose not. If the seed of Canariense should be found to agree 
with that of Illyricum, considering that both are peduncu- 
lated and deciduous, I should not doubt the correctness of 
Mr. Salisbury’s separation of Illyricum, under the name 
Halmyra Illyrica. The flower of Illyricum is distinguishable 
from all the rest in having the inside of the cup and the base 
of the limb yellow, the tube yellowish, the cup wide funnel- 
shaped, almost patent, and so short that it is little more than 
a connection of winged bases to the filaments, and 1 have 
found it occasionally split to the base between the filaments 
in one or two places, which makes it approximate a little to 
Vagaria parviflora, concerning which our knowledge is im- 
perfect. On the whole, in our present ignorance of the fruit 
