ground; a property we can hardly anticipate, considering 
how dry and mild a climate is that of California compared 
with England. In the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 
they have been planted in the open border, in a light loamy 
soil, in a cold frame, where they grew with considerable 
vigour, flowered beautifully, and produced some abundance 
of seed. 
Mr. Bentham, in his remarks upon these plantsin the 
Horticultural Transactions, observes — that ‘ this species 
resembles very much the succeeding one, but the flowers 
are larger, the petals both longer and broader, of a whit- 
ish colour, marked towards the centre with a shallow pit, 
covered with inflected hairs, glabrous below it, above 
it slightly covered with scattered hairs, and almost 
naked at the border, where the few hairs that straggle 
so far are turned inwards, and by no means form a fringe 
as is the case in C. pulchella.” | 
He also observes, that “ the Calochorti of Douglas with 
pendulous flowers, including the C. elegans of Pursh, belong 
certainly to the genus Cyclobothra established by SwEET, 
(British Flower Garden, 3, t. 173,) for the Fritillaria bar- 
bata of Kunth, and are nearer allied to Fritillaria than to 
Calochortus, but sufficiently distinct from either.” 
To this we may add that the Cyclobothras may not only 
be known by their nodding flowers, but also by the presence 
of a deep honey-pit a little below the middle of the petals, 
whence the latter have a humped appearance externally ; 
while, on the contrary, Calochortus is destitute of the honey- 
pit, in room of which is only a slight discolouration ; the 
seeds also are different in the two genera: in Calochortus 
they are flat and smooth ; in Cyclobothra they are roundish 
and angular. The generic character of Calochortus may 
therefore be thus expressed :— 
CALOCHORTUS, Pursh. Flores erecti, explanati, pa- 
tentes. Sepala glabra, convoluto-acuminata. Petala ma- 
jora, rotundata, plana, medio barbata, basi maculata, glabra. 
Stigmata 3. Capsula triangularis, coriacea. Semina serie 
simplici affixa, plana, testa suberosà— — Bulbi tunicati Cali- 
fornici, foliis convoluto-acuminatis, rigidis. 
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