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light earth, in the spring, and when the 
plants are lit to remove, transplanted into 
any part of the garden, where they will 
thrive, and produce plenty of seeds. 
AMARILLIS, in botany, a genus of the 
Hexandria Monogynia class and order, of 
the natural order of Liliae or Liliace® ; its 
characters are, that the calyx is a spathe, 
oblong, obtuse, compressed, emarginate, 
gaping on the flat side, and withering; the 
corolla has six petals, lanceolate, the nectary 
has six very short scales without the base of 
the filaments; the stamina have six awl- 
shaped filaments, with oblong, incumbent, 
rising anthers; the pistillum has a roundish, 
furrowed, inferior germ, the style filiform, 
almost of the length and in the situation of 
the stamens, the stigma trifid aud slender ; 
the pericarpium is a subovate, three-celled, 
three-valved capsule ; and the seeds are se- 
veral. The inflection of the petals, stamens, 
and pistil is very various in the different 
species of this genus; and the corolla in most 
of the species is rather hexapetaloid than 
six-petalied. Gmelin reckons 27 species. 
A. lutea, yellow A. or autumnal narcissus, 
with an undivided obtuse spathe, sessile; 
flower bell-shaped; corolla erect, shortly 
tubular at the base, and erect stamens, al- 
ternately shorter; the flowers seldom rise 
above three or four inches high ; the green 
leaves come up at the same time, and when 
the flowers are past, the leaves increase 
through the winter. This species recedes a 
little from the genus. It is a native of the 
south of France, Spain, Italy, and Thrace ; 
was cultivated by Gerard in 1596, and 
flowers in September. A. formosissima, 
jacobea lily, so called, because some ima- 
gined that they discovered in it a likeness 
to the badge of the order of the knights of 
the order of St. James, in Spain, the lilio- 
narcissus and narcissus of others, with a 
spathe undivided, flower pedicelled, corolla 
two-lipped, nodding, deeply six-parted sta- 
mens, and pistil bent down. The flowers 
are produced from the sides of the bulbs, are 
large, of a deep red, and make a beautiful 
appearance : it is a native of America, first 
known in Europe in 1593, some roots of it 
having been found on board a ship which 
had returned from South America, by Simon 
de Jovar, a physician at Seville, who sent a 
description of the flowers to Clusius, who 
published a drawing of it in 1601, called by 
Parkinson, who figured it in 1629, the Indian 
daffodil, with a red flower : cultivated in 
the Oxford Garden in 1658. A. regin®, 
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Mexican lily, with spathe, having about two 
flowers, pedicels divaricating, corollas bell- 
sliaped, shortly tubular, nodding, throat 
of the tube hirsute, and leaves lanceo- 
late, patulous; the bulb is green, corolla 
scarlet, and at the bottom whitish green, 
the style red, the flowers large, of a bright 
copper colour, inclining to red : it flowered 
in Fairchild’s garden, at Hoxton, in 1728 ; 
and Dr. Douglas wrote a folio pamphlet 
upon it, giving it the title of lilium regin®, 
because it was in full beauty on the first of 
March, the queen’s birtli-day: the roots 
were brought from Mexico, and therefore 
Mr. Fairchild called it Mexican lily, the 
name which it has retained. It flowers in 
the spring in a very warm stove ; is in beauty 
in February; and in a moderate tempera- 
ture of air will flower in Mardh or April. 
A. sarniensis, lilium sarniense of Douglas, 
who published a description of it in 1725; 
narcissus of others ; Guernsey lily, so called 
by Mr. Ray iu 1665 ; with petals linear, 
flat, stamens and pistil straightish, longer 
than the corolla, stigmas, parted and revo- 
lute. The bulb is an oblong spheroid; the 
leaves are dark willow green ; the number 
of flowers is commonly from eight to twelve, 
and circumference of each about seven 
inches; the corolla, in its prime, has the 
colour of a fine gold tissue, wrought on a 
rose-coloured ground, and when it begins to 
fade, it is a pink ; in full sunshine, it seems 
to be studded with diamonds, but by candle- 
light the specks or spangles appear more 
like fine gold dust; when the petals begin 
to wither, they assume a deep crimson co- 
lour. The flowers begin to come out at the 
end of August, and the head is usually three 
weeks in gradually expanding. This beau- 
tiful plant is a native of Japan, and has been 
long naturalized in Guernsey. It is said to 
have been brought from Japan to Paris, and 
cultivated in Morin’s garden before 1634. 
It was cultivated at Wimbledon, in England, 
by General Lambert, in 1659, and in 1664 
became more common : it does not seem to 
have been in Holland before 1695. The 
plants are reputed to owe their origin in 
Guernsey to the shipwreck of a vessel re- 
turning from Japan, probably before the 
middle of the seventeenth century. The 
bulbs, it is said, being cast on shore, took 
root in that sandy soil, and produced beau- 
tiful flowers, which engaged the attention 
of Mr. Hatton, the governor’s son, who sent 
roots to several of his friends. A variety of 
this found at the Cape of Good Hope is das- 
