acguainted with, by the depth of its fusiformly campanu- 
late corolla, its narrow caudately lanceolate petals, and by 
stamens about one fifth shorter than the germen. The bulb 
is the usual one of the genus. Leaves 3, glaucous, elon- 
gatedly lanceolate, far acuminate, undulate where broadest. 
Stem from a foot and half to two feet high, round, smooth, 
slightly flexuose, one-flowered. Corolla about five inches 
deep. Filaments smooth. Germen columnar, prismatic, 
about an inch and one fourth high. Sigmas 3 deep late- 
rally compressed lobes, edgewisely revolute, channelled at 
the upper edge, and forming a triangular capital to the 
column of the germen, much as in the common garden- 
Tulip. We did not perceive that the bloom had any scent, 
The species is stated to be as hardy, and of as easy culture 
and propagation as any of the other kinds, and to have 
produced seed and offsets in abundance in the Parisian 
gardens. To us it appears the most interesting acquisition 
that has fallen to the share of the florist for a long while. 
We certainly did not expect that so conspicuous a 
floWer had escaped the older florists, with whom .the bul- 
bous plants of the Levant seem to have been greater fa- 
vourites than with our modern gardeners. Wê did not 
think that there remained even a variety of a Hyacinth or 
Tulip within the reach of the correspondent of a Turkey- 
merchant that was unknown to them, much less so remark- 
able a species. It appears to be as inconstant in its colour 
as gesneriana (the common garden-Tulip). 
