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AMARYLLIDACEA2. 
Var. 2. Nivea. Loiseleur. Spec. Herb. Hooker. Tangiers. 
Germen 5-16ths, tube slenderer than unicolor fths, cup 
3-16ths, limb 13-1 Gtlis, sepals 3-16ths wide, style equalling 
the cup, leaves 5-16ths wide, or less, umbel 13-flowered. 
The variety cultivated in Italy has the leaf and style of 
the native, but approaches more to the African variety in the 
proportions of the flower. The peduncles in all are shorter 
than the spathe. 
Hermione Serotina. — I have ascertained by two speci- 
mens, one from stony places at the foot of the hills near Ar- 
gostoli, one from the hills near Cagliari, that the posture of 
this flower is not really erect, as represented in all the en- 
gravings we have of it, in consequence of their having been 
made from specimens ill dried. The flower will become erect 
when the seed sets. It does not always precede the leaves ; 
in one Neapolitan specimen I find a leaf as long as the scape, 
but scarcely a line wide. There is in Sir W. Hooker's herba- 
rium a one-flowerecl specimen from Tangiers, marked sero- 
tinus, which is evidently the same species or variety as the 
two-flowered specimen represented PI. 42. f. 6. but I cannot 
ascertain what its colour has been. The bulb is twice as large 
as those of serotina. The union of aequilimba with serotina 
in the FI. Melit. is quite erroneous. 1 lament that I cannot 
ascertain the precise structure of the stamens of serotina and 
viridiflora, which may be found to conform with the jonquill. 
Hermione Tazetta. — Tube green, limb yellow or white, 
cup orange or yellow, however pale ; stigma between the 
upper anthers ; leaves glaucous. 
V. 12. Specimens Herb. Hooker. Lady Dalhousie, near 
Syrie. Oct. 10. both 4-flowered, peduncles long, tube cup 
limb about 11-1 6ths, seemingly very pale yellow. 
V. 13. Spec. Herb. Hooker; in moist places. Algiers. Ja- 
nuary. Umbel 8-flowered, peduncles short, tube 9-lGths, limb 
7-1 Gtlis, light yellow; cup 3-1 Gtlis, darker; leavesabout l wide. 
V. 14. Spec. Herb. Hooker; in upland pastures near Ca- 
gliari, Sardinia. Umbel 5-flowered, ped. short, tube limb ^ 
inch, seeming pale yellow (or white ?) cup i, leaves about 
^ths wide. 
I was surprised at finding the bulbs sent to me of the 
native Maltese Tazetta, said to be cupularis or soleil d’or, not 
so wide as a common walnut, though rather longer. The 
succession of the species would stand more properly 3. bre- 
vistyla. 4. Italica. 5. papyracea. 6. dubia. 7. Corcyrensis. 
8 Aequilimba, 9. elegans. 10. serotina. 11. obsoleta. 12. viri- 
diflora. 
