umbellate inflorescence, and. a powerful garlic-like odour, 
but in hardly any other respect more than Ornithogalum, 
and the other genera of the Liliaceous order. The charac- 
ters assigned to it are amply sufficient to fix it as a most 
distinct and remarkable genus. 
Gussone inquires whether A. Dioscoridis may not be the 
same species; a question that I believe there is no present 
means of answering. 
It is a hardy species, my drawing of which was made 
from a plant in the Garden of the Society of Apothecaries at 
Chelsea, in June last. It produces seeds, by which the cura- 
tor, Mr. Anderson, will, I presume, be able to increase it. 
In the accompanying dissections, 1. represents an ovary 
surrounded by stamens, the calyx and corolla having been 
cut away; 2. is a section of the ovary indicating the position 
of the ovules ; 3. is a ripe fruit invested by the permanent 
calyx and corolla; 4. is a capsule with its valves opening ; 
5. is a seed. 
