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in that of their foliage, and the segments of the limb being 
of a different form in each. As this point however cannot 
at all events be satisfactorily decided without a mutual 
comparison of their samples, we have placed the two dis- 
tinctly under the same specific head. 
SPECIES. 
Merendera. Nob. MERENDERA Bulbocodium. Medouté liliac. tab. 25. | 
Colchicum montanum minus versicolore flore. Clus. hist. 
1. 200. cum ic. i 
Bulbocodium. Nob. in Curtis's magaz. fol. verso 1028. BuLBocopium | 
vernum. Curtis’s magaz. 153. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 22 
montanum*. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 1. 1.342. Willd. sp. pl. 2.278. Clus. hist. © 
; peel 200; : g 
arenarium. In loco presenti. 
alpinum. Redouté liliac. 8. tab. 467. 
variegatum. Nob. in Curtis’s magaz. 1028. Willd. sp. pl. 
autumnale. Engi. bot. tab. 133. 
polyanthon. —_ Nob. in Curtis’s magaz. fol. verso 1028. Colchicum panno- ~ 
nicum. Clus. hist. 1. 199. 
byzantinum. Nob. in Curtis’s magaz. 1122. Clus. hist. 1.199, 200.. © 
Tura and Conicuicum have no recorded representatives 
in America, nor ‘within the tropics of either continent. 
The two appear to be nearly coextensive in their distribu- 
tion, and limited to the temperate regions of Kurope and 
the confining regions of the North of Asia and Africa. 
The southern part of Russian Tartary seems to be the main 
hive of the Tulips. ; . 
Me.antuium, perhaps too artificially separated from 
Tuutpa and to which Tuutpa breyniana has only recently 
reverted, appears to be restricted to the Cape of Good 
Hope. . 
Hexonias is the nearest co-ordinate type yet found in 
America. 
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* This species was taken up by Linnus from a letter of Leefling’s, who 
describes the flowers and leaves as appearing together in the autumn; whereas, 
as Mr. Dryander observes, Clusius speaks of his plant as producing the 
flowers before the leaves, which however come up immediately after, during 
the autumn, and do not await, as usual in the genus, the spring, but grow on © 
through the winter. A difference which, according to Mr. Dryander, makes 
the synonym from Clusius doubtful. 
