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AMAUYLLIDACEJE. 
Var. 3. (fortuita ) flore albo. A very handsome white 
variety, introduced from the Dutch gardens, pro- 
bably raised in Holland. Not permanent by seed, 
if near other varieties ; but nearly so if kept apart 
while in flower. 
The seedlings of this species, which is easily recognized 
by its long glaucous leaves, vary so much in the length of 
the peduncle, tube, and limb, and in the shade of colour, 
which is usually a mixture of dull red and white, that it is 
not advisable to designate any further accidental varieties. 
It is a very hardy species, endures the winter, and flowers in 
profuse succession during five or six months in a bed covered 
with leaves in the winter, and with me it ripens seed by the 
bushel. It delights in wet, and will flower in a pond, but 
its fibres are rather disposed to rot in the water of a cold 
pond in the winter. In a warmer situation it may remain 
always in water. I do not know that its fibres would rot if 
it was growing in the soil under the pond. It might be 
advantageously planted by the edge of any ornamental piece 
of water, and would form a beautiful clothing for a small 
island, where it would afford thick covert for waterfowl. 
Nursery gardeners might easily rear it from seed to sell by 
the hundred. A covering of leaves is not necessary to it, 
and its own dead foliage would give it a good deal of pro- 
tection. I have had the neck of a bulb, which was left in a 
pot standing in a small pond, clasped tight by ice two 
inches thick for a fortnight, without receiving any injury 
from it. 
42. Campanulatum. — Bot. Mag. 47. 2121. p. 7. Aqua- 
ticum. Bot. Mag. 49. 2352. Specim. Herb. Bur- 
chell. A most remarkable plant ; very like vari- 
able in foliage, but its leaves are less vigorous, 
more fleshy and tortuous. Flowers rosy red, with 
a green waxy membrane at the mouth of the tube, 
which appears in no other species, and is so foreign 
to the genus, that I was at first almost tempted to 
believe it was generically distinct, and to detach it 
under the name Crinopsis ; but, although its fruit 
is unknown, I expect that it will be found to con- 
form with the other species. Dr. Burchell imagined 
that the spot on which he found it was always 
under water. He must, however, have been de- 
