AMARYLLIDACE2E. 
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long, green, not crenulated ; periantli white, with 
a green spot near the top of each segment ; filaments 
white ; style white, with a green spot below the 
stigma ; ovules 13-20 in each cell. The figure of 
the style and stigma of this plant is doubtless impro- 
perly represented, for it disagrees with the descrip- 
tion in the text, as well as with the conformation of 
Leucojum aestivum. I have never seen the plant. 
3. Hernandezianum. — Cambassedes. Leaves linear, 3-4- 
lines wide, obtuse, 1-1^ foot long ; scape a little ex- 
ceeding the leaves; spathe one-leaved, peduncle 
1-1^ inch, filiform ; perianth about £ an inch (4-5- 
lines) long ; style shorter than the limb. Differs 
from aestivum in having flowers about half the size, 
and a more oblong germen. Found by Dr. Her- 
nandez, in Majorca, on the mountains near Lluch. 
Leucojum capitulatum of R. and Schultes from Loureiro 
C. Ch. p. 246. is unquestionably a Curculigo or Molineria. 
They have been misled by the alleged thickness of the points 
of the limb, without considering the plicate leaves and hairy 
exterior of the perianth. Leucojum is remarkably distin- 
guishable from Erinosma by the lateral slit of the anther, 
which is superadded to the terminal pore, sometimes running- 
near to the base, though the anther is not at all inverted, as 
in the schistandrous genera ; the stigma is much like that of 
Erinosma, but the style slenderer and less clavate. 
Suborder 7 ? Tacce^:. 
Concerning these anomalous plants, which form the order 
Taccaceae, and in my opinion do not properly belong to Ama- 
ryllidaceae, I have little to add to what has been already stated. 
The order contains only the very few known species of Tacca, 
one of which has been detached by Prezl, under the name 
Ataccia. I raised many years ago Tacca pinnatifida and 
integrifolia from seed, and their habit was precisely that of an 
Arum, throwing out their fibres from the upper surface of 
the tuber, which lay dormant in winter. I have never seen 
their inflorescence, but notwithstanding its approximation to 
that of hexapetaloid plants, I believe they will be found to 
have been pi-operly placed (p. 45) as a separate (subspadiceous 
subcorolliform) order. I do not recollect that any of the 
plants I have included under Amaryllidaceae, produce fibres 
