‘been treated as a hothouse plant. Miller seems to have 
mistaken P. z//yricum for it, as many gardeners of the pre- 
sent day have also done. Its fragrance is exquisite. 
P. carolinianum of Linneus, an american, and P. vere- 
cundum of Solander, an east indian plant, had been con- 
sidered as belonging to this, and included’in the synonymy. 
But Mr. Dryander, whose sagacity is seldom at fault, has 
dismissed them entirely in the last edition of the Hortus 
Kewensis. Indeed the fact of the specific identity of three 
plants of this genus, indigenous of three so widely parted 
regions, does at least require the voucher of the strictest 
scrutiny to be securely admitted. And we have no reason 
to think that such test has been applied in the present case. 
Mr. Pursh it is true adopts, in his American Flora, the sy- 
nonym of the european plant for his species, but we believe 
that he never had an opportunity of deciding their identity 
from a comparison. of living specimens. 
Root a roundish tunicated bulb with brown coverings. 
Leaves several, in this individual eight, ligulate, narrow, 
slightly concave, bifarious, upright, rather longer than the 
scape, about half an inch across, very glaucous, streakless, 
slightly convex along the back, shortly and obtusely 
pointed. Scape from eight inches to a foot and half high, 
cylindrical, compressed, glaucous, unstreaked. Spathe of 
two sphacelated lanceolate valves, almost four times 
shorter than the flowers. Umbel 2-7-flowered or more, 
nearly sessile, or with very short thick peduncles. Flowers 
large white: germen oblong, obtusely triangular, glaucous; 
tube of the corolla green, 3-4 inches long, slightly enlarged 
towards the faux; /imb shorter than the tube, segments 
linear-lanceolate, adhering for a considerable distance to 
the crown; ¢nner ones rather broadest, of a tenderer and 
semitransparent substance at the sides, thicker and exter- 
nally green along the middle; outer ones substantial, wholly 
green at the outer surface; crown large, wide, about one 
fourth shorter than the limb to which it adheres, fora great 
length, cylindrical, narrowed downwards, 12-cleft, with 
pointed equal teeth. Stamens short, connivent: filaments 
scarcely longer than the teeth of the crown. 
