PANCRATIUM ILLYRICUM. 
ILLYRIAN PANCRATIUM. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
AMARYLLIDEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
S. Europe. 
18 inches. 
June. 
Perennial. 
in 1605. 
No. 159. 
The name of this genus is of Greek origin, and 
seems to have been first conferred on some bulb, or 
tribe of bulbs, of more potent qualities than the sub- 
ject under consideration ; probably to some of our 
species of Garlic ; as the word is derived from pan, 
all ; kratus, power. Ulyricum, from Illyria, the 
ancient name of a portion of the south of Europe, 
where this plant is indigenous. 
It is not unfrequently brought to England from 
the Dutch nurseries, and is by no means rare in our 
English gardens. Its hardy character and its fra- 
grant showy flowers at once recommend it. 
It was observed, nearly thirty years ago, to be 
very generally in our nurseries under the name of 
Pancratium maritimum ; an error much spread by 
Miller, and which seems to have continued to the 
present day. 
The bulbs should not, by choice, be transplanted 
oftener than once in three or four years; aud then 
the removal is best effected soon after the decay of 
the leaves. The offsets may be taken for increase, 
as occasion requires, and a rather dry light soil 
should be preferred. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 220. 
