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tube, which in both is shorter than in the first. Var. 4. has 
the leaves narrower and less erect than the others. It was 
sent to Sir Alex. Johnstone direct from Mexico, and is such 
a decided aquatic, that I have a seedling plant of it now in 
flower in a cistern, where it has been submerged from a few 
weeks after it sprouted from the seed some years ago. It is 
a hardy greenhouse plant, but a little warmth promotes its 
flowering. Var. 5. was sent to Mr. Tate of Sloane Street, 
Chelsea, by Mr. Staples, from Mexico. It is remarkable 
from the multitude of offsets it produces, which rather im- 
pede its flowering. It is the hardiest of all the varieties, 
and having been placed about half a yard from the wall of 
the stove in front of var. 1. it grows with such luxuriance as 
almost to overpower the bulbs behind it, forming a very 
thick and increasing tuft of leaves above two feet high. 
Some bulbs of it, which were placed in 1835 in a border in 
the middle of the garden, and covered with a few leaves in 
the winter, have survived, but seem to want frequent water- 
ing ; a pot the bulbs set on a step in the pond grows more 
vigorously. It has flowered and ripened seeds out of doors 
in front of the stove. I think Mr. Ker was right in stating 
(Bot. Mag. 27. 1082.y that the P. Mexicanum of Linnaeus 
was a weak specimen of var. 2. of this species, and the name 
Mexicana, if at all preserved, must belong to some variety 
of this species. I believe them all to grow in Mexico, and 
as yet I know of no other species from thence. Litoralis 
could not be taken as the chief name of the species without 
absurdity and untruth, and it remains to be ascertained 
whether it does really belong even to the first variety. 
13. Rotata. — Foliis suberectis subspathulatis 9-20 unci- 
alibus ^-1§ latis, nitidis, viridibus, scapo 2-4 floro, 
corona magna patula. 
Var. 1. Quadriflora. — P. rotatum. Bot. Mag. 21. 827. 
Lodd. B. C. 19. P. Carolinianum Catesby Carol, 
fig. pessiina. 
Var. 2. Disciformis ; biflora, omni parte minor, corona 
minus rotata. P. Mexicanum. Linn. Ker. J. Sc. 
and A. cum ic. P. rotatum a. Bot. Mag. 27. 1082. 
P. disciforme. Red. Lil. 155. 
These two plants, the second of which Dryander erro- 
neously supposed to have come from Mexico, where we have 
no reason to believe it is known, are natives of bogs in the 
