nerine

[One of the Nereids ( Virg.: Ecl vii. 37).] Bot.: A genus of Amaryllidacese, tribe Amaryllee. Nerine sarniensis is the Guernsey Lily. It is not indigenous there, but was, according to Loudon, introduced through the shipwreck of a ve el from the Cape of Good Hope, which had bulbs of it on board, but Paxton says it was introduced in 1659 from Japan. It is a beautiful plant, with red flowers. ně-rin-ě-a, s. [NERINE.] Palcont.: A genus of Cerithiade (q. v.). Shell turreted, many-whorled, and nearly cylindrical. The species are very numerous, and exclusively Jura ic and Cretaceous.