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Amaryllis Belladonna does at the time its leaves push in the 
spring, when the previous autumn has been unfavourable to 
its flowering. In the course of above fourteen years since it 
was raised, it has only once attempted to expand its flowers, 
and that in a very unsatisfactory manner in the stove ; but 
I have lately had reason to suspect that more wet is neces- 
sary to it than to either of its parents, and perhaps absolute 
immersion at the time of flowering. I may take this oppor- 
tunity of stating that the plant which I fancied many years 
ago to have been obtained from C. Capense by Hymeno- 
callis (then Pancratium) disticha, proved, as it advanced, to 
have been by C. Canaliculatum. There had been an error 
in the memorandum made concerning it, or the flower had 
been touched by the pollen of both plants. A very interest- 
ing Crinum, of which only one plant was raised, from C. de- 
fixum by speciosum for several years put forth abortive 
scapes, but it has flowered well the two or three last seasons, 
though it has yielded no increase in any manner ; neither 
has the fine plant which was raised from Scabrum by Cana- 
liculatum. One of the handsomest white sorts, from C. bre- 
vifolium by the larger variety of erubescens, having a strong 
red root-stem, somewhat like Amabile, has afforded many 
offsets but no seed. The only genus in which I had observed 
barrenness of the offspring appearing to arise from the bota- 
nical difference of parents, whose constitution seemed very 
similar, was Nerine, of which the crosses between the divi- 
sion with regular and that with distorted filaments had borne 
no seed ; but in that case the discrepancy was so important 
that it might have been almost supposed to afford a generic 
distinction, and Mr. Salisbury had named the Distortae 
Loxanthus. In the article Nerine, p. 283, I have given an 
account of a mule from the distorted N. pulchella by the 
regular curvifolia, of which the flowers are exceedingly 
similar to those of the cross between undulata and curvi- 
folia, plate 45, but more healthful and free. The last-men- 
tioned cross, as far as I have seen, is quite sterile, the parents 
having differed not only in regularity of perianth, but in the 
mode of flowering ; for the inflorescence of undulata is cen- 
trifugal — that of pulchella, as well as curvifolia, centripetal ; 
from which conformity I anticipated the more probable fer- 
tility of the mule. That conjecture has been verified, since 
the former pages were sent to the press, by the production of 
healthy seed from the mule curvifolia-pulchella, and an abun- 
