flower from which the sketch was made flowered in the 
collection of Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth House, under 
the care of Mr. Cooper, who received it from the Botanic 
Garden at Glasgow. Mr. Cooper is one of the most 
zealous and successful cultivators of rare plants in this king- 
dom, and has with unremitting exertion brought together 
the fine collection of plants now at Wentworth, by a liberal 
system of exchanging his superfluities for those of other per- 
sons. He has now for above twenty years had the manage- 
ment of the Botanic Garden at Wentworth, and few culti- 
vators deserve better the compliment of having his name 
handed down to posterity, as engrafted in our botanical no- 
menclature. It seems that bulbs of this singular plant flow- 
ered about the same time at the Botanic Garden at Edin- 
burgh, and at Mr. Dickson's nursery, but Mr. Cooper was 
at least one of the first who brought it into flower, and, as the 
name Drummondia is preoccupied, the genus is named after 
Mr. Cooper. Itis possible that the plant may be found to 
endure our climate, as the frosts are severe in Texas, but as 
it pushes its leaves in the autumn, it probably grows ina. 
temperate situation and would be injured by our winters, 
and at present it must be considered as a greenhouse or 
frame plant. It is nearly allied to Zephyranthes. Two suc- 
cessive one-flowered scapes were produced, the first of which 
ripened seed that readily vegetated. The limb expanded 
quite flat. The pollen viewed in the microscope is difformed 
like that of Zephytanthes candida, and not of the usual more 
regular and oval form that prevails amongst the genera allied 
to it. It is doubtful whether Z. candida, ought not to be 
generically distinguished by tliat and some other features 
from Zephyranthes.” 
l. The back of a petal. 2, Ditto of a sepal. 3. Stigma, 4. Ripe seed: 
5. Pollen magnified. 7. Inside of the mouth of the tube, shewing the 
sessile anthers. 
Mr. Herbert speaks of another species, nearly akin 
to this, which has flowered in the greenhouse at Spofforth, 
equally from Texas. This plant has at this time (beginning 
of January, 1836) three leaves nearly a foot and a half long, 
= may be distinguished by the following name and cha- 
racter, 
“ Cooperia chlorosolen ; foliis sesquipedalibus, | une. latis tortilibus acutis viri- 
ibus; ermine sessili; spathă 1}-unciali tubulosá apice fenestratà ; perianthii 
tubo 4; -unciali viridi, limbo iunc. albo sepalis viridi-apiculatis extus 
viridi-lineatis; stylo semuneiam vel ultra tubo breviore."—W, H. 
