Hexandrt A. 
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JACOBEAN A M A R Y L L I S. 
W E receiv’d firft from South America this Pride and Glory of the 
bulbous Clafs. Mine, though of Asiatic Origin, differ’d m nothing 
from the ufual Plant, except that the Leaves vvere fomewhat narrower, 
and of a lefs firm Subftance. I need not recommend it to the \¥orld. The 
‘Hexandrous Clafs comprizes moft of the bulbous Plants ; and they are generally 
crown’d with fpecious Flowers : This has enjoy’d the firft Praife hitherto ; and 
Fancy is the only JudgCj whether or not the next excels it. ^ 
The Leaves are fleftiy, but not firm : The Stalk is thick ; and what is very 
■finaular, ’tis often white, or tranfparent toward the Ground, though it gives 
Nmirifhment to this high-colour’d Flower. The Change which gives that 
glowing Colour is made higher. • ■ ^ 
The Flower burfts from a filmy Scabbard ; and with its Weight often bends 
the Stalk. The Difpofition of the Petals, one upright, two fideways, and three 
downward, is regular and eflential in the Plant : and the bending of the lower 
Petals, by which they embrace the Filaments towards the Bottom, is yet more 
fingular. 
' The fix Filaments difcover the Plant to be of this hexandrous Clafs; the fixth 
in order in the Sexual Syftem : and the Cfiaradfer of that Clafs cannot be more 
ftrongly mark’d in any Flower. The Anthera, or Buttons, which crown the 
Filaments, are at firft long and white; afterwards ftiorter and yellow. It is a 
Change frequent in the Anthera of other Flowers ; but here they are fo large 
that ’tis eafy to fee how it is brought about. The Plant will flower upon a Shelf, 
and it may therefore be familiarly obferv’d. 
The Anthera at their firft Appearance are furrow’d lengthwdfe, and are white. Each 
■is compos’d of two Tubes join’d on their inner Part ; and each has a Groove out- 
ward along the Middle. If an Anthera be cut tranfverfely, thefe two T ubes are plainly 
feen; and they are fill’d with a yellow Powder, the Farina. After a Time they 
burft : the Opening begins at one End of each Tube, and in the Groove, As they 
fplit farther up, the two Sides turn back, and the Tubes contradl themfelves, and 
become fhorter. This makes their change of Shape : the yellow Colour is owing 
to the Farina covering them. 
The other Parts of Impregnation are as confpicuous in this vaft Flower. The 
Stigma or Top of the Style is cover’d with cryftalline Clubs, and open Tubes, 
and is always wet with a glutinous clear Humour, ferving to detain and burft the 
Grains of Farina. 
There are alfo fix Nedlaria in the Bafe • of the Flower, of a very curious and 
peculiar Structure, folid at their Bottom, and branch’d upwards in the manner 
of white Coral. 
Thefe Parts I firft obferv’d in that Species Amaryllis, figur’d in a fmall Work, 
entitled. Outlines of Vegetable Generation, publilh’d a few Months fince. 
Linn^us overlook’d them. I am happy to find them alfo in this Plant, which 
is a Species of the fame Gems : different Obfervations thus confirm each other. 
Amariyllis Spatha uniflora, corolla insquali genltalibus declinatis. Linn. Jacobean Lilly vulgo. 
