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CORONARIAE

Volume 6 · 62 words · 1815 Edition

Botany, the 10th order of plants, in Linnaeus's Fragments of a Natural Method. Under this name, instead of the more obvious one li-baccæ, Linnaeus collects a great number of genera, most of which furnish very beautiful garden flowers, viz. albuca, cyanella, fritillaria, helonias, hyacinthus, hypoxis, lilium, melanthium, ornithogalum, ficilla, tulipa, agave, aletris, aloe, anthericum, alphodelus, bromelia, burmannia, hemerocallis, polyanthes, tillandisia, veratum, yucca.