Authors have given to this species of Ornithogalum the name of Neapolitan, following CLUSIUS by whom the plant is figured and described, and who so called it, merely on receiving it from Naples; it may perhaps be doubted whether it be originally a native of Italy. Prof. JACQUIN has figured it in his _Flora Austriaca_, the plant being common about Vienna, in garden-walks, under hedges, and in meadows, he does not however, from that circumstance, regard it as an original native there. CASP. BAUHIN informs us that HONORIUS BELLI sent it him from Crete under the name of _Phalangium_, leaving its true habitat to be settled more precisely hereafter, we shall observe, that it is one of those plants which soon accommodate themselves to any country; producing a numerous progeny both from roots and seeds, and by no means nice as to soil or situation; it is not long before it becomes a weed in the garden, from whence it is apt like the _Hyacinthus racemosus_, already figured, to pass into the field or meadow. Its flowers, which if not beautiful are singular and delicate, make their appearance towards the end of April, they are of no long duration, seldom continuing above a fortnight, and are succeeded by seed-vessels which produce abundance of ripe seed, by which, as well as by its bulbs, the plant may be increased. In the _Hortus Kewensis_ it is set down as a Greenhouse plant, one of the rare errors which occur in that most useful work. [Illustration: No 270] [270] GLYCINE COCCINEA. SCARLET GLYCINE. _Class and Order._ DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 2-labiatus. _Corollae_ carina apice vexillum reflectens. _Specific Character._ GLYCINE _coccinea_ foliis ternatis, foliolis subrotundis undulatis. We here present our readers with another Glycine, very lately raised by several persons in the neighbourhood of London from Botany-Bay seeds, and which we have called _coccinea_ from the colour of its blossoms. It is a shrubby, climbing plant, which, if supported, will grow to the height of many feet, producing a great number of flowers on its pendant branches; the leaves, which grow three together, are nearly round, and, in the older ones especially, are crimped or curled at the edges; the flowers grow for the most part in pairs, are of a glowing scarlet colour, at the base of the carina somewhat inclined to purple, the bottom of the vexillum is decorated with a large yellow spot, verging to green, which adds much to the beauty of the flower. It blossoms from April to June, and appears to be fully as much disposed to produce seed vessels, and perfect seeds, as the _rubicunda_, and by which alone it has hitherto been propagated. We must rank it among the more tender green-house plants. [271] CYRTANTHUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS. NARROW-LEAVED CYRTANTHUS. _Class and Order._ HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _Generic Character._