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Alstrcemeria Psittacina. — The seed-pod of this species 
has only six angles at the summit of the germen and cap- 
sule, the subsidiary six being obsolete ; and its seeds are 
much less tuberculated. than the other species. These pecu- 
liarities probably extend to the section, with a prolonged and 
incurved upper sepal. 
Alstrcemeria Pygm^a grows only on the highest parts 
of the Cordillera, not more than two inches high, in rich 
black soil. 
I have said inadvertently (p. 103) that the soil for Alstroe- 
meria should be light. No general rule, as to earth, can be 
applicable to a genus of which some species grow in the clefts 
of rocks, and others in rich meadows. I find aurantiaca suc- 
ceed well in alluvial soil, and I have no doubt that Hseman- 
tha, and many others, will thrive better in the earth of a 
rich meadow than in a light compost, if attention is paid to 
the drainage. I even suspect that the diseased appearance 
which Alst. haemantha (pulchella of the nurserymen) often 
presents, is owing to its being planted in a light, peaty com- 
post. I have not found it so diseased in loam. 
Alstrcemeria, 20. Subrosulacea. — PI. 5. f. 1-2. Herb. 
Lindl. Chili. Flower stem with few leaves, the two upper 
opposite ; involucral leaves and peduncles three ; peduncles 
bracteate, 3-flowered ; flowers 1 \ inch long ; colour evan- 
escent ; barren stem subrosulaceous ; leaves resupinate, 
about If long, lance-oval 3-16ths wide. Seems to approach 
most nearly to Preslana. This description has been omitted 
by accident in the body of the work ; it should stand before 
Preslana, which should be numbered 21, and the subsequent 
numbers altered accordingly. 
Alstrcemeria Versicolor. — PI. 48. f. 6. Specim. Herb. 
Hooker. Reynolds, near Antuco, S. Chili. This plant ap- 
pears to answer exactly the description given by Ruiz of 
Versicolor, without any figure or specimen preserved, and 
I entertain no doubt of its identity. 
Amaryllis. — As if Lamark’s character of Amaryllis, in 
which the features assigned are successively contravened by 
contradictory alternatives, were not sufficiently unintelligi- 
ble, I find that Trattinich (Auswahl von Gartenpflanzen) has 
added Ixiolirion, Hsemanthus, Brunsvigia, Gastronema, Stru- 
maria, and Sternebergia, to the mass, and subdivided it into 
such fanciful sections, that Ixiolirion Tataricum figures with 
