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THE AMARYLLIDE7E. 
spread them on the floor, or other convenient place, in preference to 
putting them in bags, until the planting season. The offsets are to 
be separated and treated as the old bulbs. Propagation by seeds .— 
Gather the seeds as soon as ripe, and sow them in pans or pots filled 
with light maiden soil, place them in a situation not too much ex¬ 
posed to the sun until the end of September, when they may be set 
in a frame and screened from heavy rains and frost, let them have 
as much sun as possible all winter, and by the end of March 
they will be up. Keep them in the frame till the frosts are over, 
then place them under an east wall all summer; when the leaves are 
dead give the pots a top-dressing with fresh soil, and treat them 
through the second winter as recommended for the first. At the end 
of the second summer turn them out of the pots, and plant them in 
beds of light sandy soil about two and a half inches apart. After 
they have stood two years in this bed, replant them six inches apart 
in another bed composed of equal parts of strong rich loam, leaf 
mould, and rotten cow dung; here they will come into flower, after 
which they may be treated as the old bulbs. A. H. Haworth, F>sq. 
after a careful and diligent research has considered it necessary from 
the differences of structure in the flower and fruit of the genus, to 
divide the species into 16 different genera called 1. Corbularia ( cor - 
bula, a little basket,) ten species, the hoop-petticoat family. 2. Ajax 
— (the brave Greek in the Trojan war) 24 species; the Daffodil 
family. 3. Oileus (poets lesser Ajax) 5 species; the dipt trunk 
family. 4. Assaracus (a brother of Ganymedes) 2 species. 5 Ilus 
(another brother of Ganymedes) 2 species. 6 Ganymedes (cup¬ 
bearer to the god’s; crown of flower cup shaped) 5 species; contains 
Narcissus pulchellus, and other species near it. 7. Diomedes (a 
valiant Greek at the seige of Troy) 3 species; N. Macleayi of the 
Bot. Mag. being one of them. 8. Tros (the father of Ganymedes) 
2 species; Nar. Galantliifolius, is one. 9 Queltia (Nicholas Le 
Quelt) 7 species; the Nar. incomparabilis, and approximate species. 
10 Schizantlies ( schizo , to cut, and anthe a flower ; the crown deeply 
gashed) 1 species, the N. orientalis. 11. Philogyne ( phileo to love, 
gyne, a woman; approximation of anthers to stigmas) 9 species ; N. 
odorus, is the type. 12 Jonquilla (Juncus a rush ; leaves like rush¬ 
es) 4 species; the jonquills of the gardens. 13. Chloraster ( ch/oros , 
green, aster a star ; segments of the perianth, like a green star) 2 
species, one the N. viridiflorus of Bot. Mag. 1687. 14 Hermione 
(daughter of Helena and Menelaus) 54 species; Polyanthus-Narcis¬ 
sus family. 15 Helena (mother of Hermione) 6 species; N. teiiuior 
Bot. Mag . is one, and 16 Narcissus contains 12 sp., N. poeticus and 
