nnuals of the more
tender kind; seedling plants raised in the autumn in pots, and kept in
the green-house or under a frame during winter, will, of course, flower
much earlier than plants produced in the spring.

Within these few years, a variety of this Senecio with perfectly double
flowers, equally brilliant as those of the single kind, has been
introduced, and is here figured; this, from its superior beauty, is now
cultivated, in preference to the single; there is double variety of it
also with white flowers which being less shewy is not so much esteemed;
both of these are raised, and that readily, from cuttings, which as soon
as well rooted may be planted out in the open borders, where they will
be highly ornamental during most of the summer; as young plants are most
desirable, we should take care to have a constant succession from
cuttings regularly put in, and to preserve pots of such in particular,
in the green-house during winter, for early blowing the ensuing summer.

The single sort was cultivated here, by CHARLES DUBOIS, Esq. in the year
1700. _Ait. Kew._

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AMARYLLIS ATAMASCO. ATAMASCO LILY.

_Class and Order._

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cor._ hexapetaloidea, irregularis. _Filamenta_ fauci tubi inserta,
declinata, inaequalia proportione vel directione. _Linn. Fil._

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

AMARYLLIS _Atamasco_ spatha bifida acuta, flore pedicellato, corolla
campanulata subaequali erecta basi breve tubulosa, staminibus
declinatis aequalibus. _Linn. Fil._ _Ait. Kew. p. 416._

AMARYLLIS _Atamasco_ spatha uniflora, corolla aequali, pistillo
declinato. _Linn. Spec. Pl. ed 3. p. 420._

LILIO-NARCISSUS Indicus pumilus monanthus albus foliis angustissimis
Atamasco dictus. _Moris. Hist. 11. p. 366. t. 24._

LILIO-NARCISSUS virginiensis. _Catesb. Carol. 3. p. 12. t. 12._

LILIO-NARCISSUS liliflorus carolinianus flore albo singulari cum
rubedine diluto. _Pluk. Alm. 220. t. 43. f. 3._

The _Amaryllis Atamasco_ is a native of Virginia and Carolina, in which
countries it grows very plentifully in the fields and woods, where it
makes a beautiful appearance when it is in flower, which is in the
spring. The flowers of this sort are produced singly, and at their first
appearance have a fine Carnation colour on their outside, but this fades
away to a pale or almost white before the flowers decay. This plant is