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4. CALOCHORTUS. Ph, 



Mores erecti, explanati, patentes. Sepala glabra, convoluto-acuminata. Pe^ major a, 

 rotundata, plana, medio barbata, basi maculata glabra. Stylus 0. Stigmata 3. Caps. 

 triangularis, coriacea. Semina serie simplici affixa, plana, testa suberosa.— Bulbi tunU 

 €at^ foliis convoluto-acuminatis rigidis. LindL 



1. C. macrocarpus (Dougl. HoYt. Trans. 1. p. 216. t. S) ; caule 3-5-phyllo bifloro, 

 petalis prater fasciculum pilorum glabris, capsulis erectis lineari-oblongis. LindL Bot. 

 Reg. tlU2. 



Hab. N. W. Interior. Great Falls and southern branches of the Columbia. Douglas.^Qnt of the most 

 lovely of plants ; flowers large purple. 



2. C. 7iitidus (Dougl. Hort. Trans. 7. p. 277. t 9. A) ; caule 2-3-phyllo quadrifloro, 

 petalis interioribus pr^eter pilorum fasciculum sparse lanatis, capsulis erectis ovalibus. 



Hab. N. W, Interior. Vallies of the Blue Mountains, and mountainous district of the Columbia, and 

 about Spokan River. Douglas, 



3. C. elegans (Ph. Am. 1. p. 240) ; caule 1-folio 1-5-floro, petalis interioribus obovatis 

 intus toto pilosis, floribus subcernuis.— Cyclobothria elegans. Benth. Lindl.—a.. minor; 

 caule unifloro. Bough in Hort Trans, v. 7, t. 9. B. {left-hand figure.)— p. major: caule 

 3-5-floro. Dougl U c. t. 9. B. {right-hand figure.) 



Hab. «. Recesses of the Rocky Mountains, near the regions of perpetual snow. Douglas,--^, In the 

 vallies of the Columbia. Douglas, Banks of the Wallamet. Tolmie,—My specimens from the Wallamet 

 agree with the larger variety of Mr Douglas, but are still larger, a foot high, and with flowers full twice the 

 size of as. In other respects the two plants accord. The blossoms appear white, with a bluish tinge. Mr 

 Bentham refers this to Cyclobothria of Sweet : but it appears to me, if the two genera are to be kept sepa- 

 rate, that this is more naturally allied to Calochortus. The flowers can scarcely be called drooping, and the 

 seeds, which are said to difl'er in the two genera, are not known in this plant. But be that as it may, the 



name Calochortus must be retained to the present species, being the very one on which the genus was 

 founded. 



Ord. X. ASPHODELE^. L. 



I. ANTHERICUM. Z. 



1. A. serotinum. L.—E. Bot. t. 793.— Lloydia, Salisb. i/w^/.— Nectarobothrium. 

 Ledeh — Rhabdocrinum. Reich, 



IJab. Unalaschka. Chamisso {in Herb, nostr.). Northern Arctic Coast, rare. Br Richardson.-^OnXy 

 four specimens were gathered by Dr Richardson, and the flowers varied from 1-3 on a stem. 



2, ALLIUM. Z. 



1. A. Striatum. Jacq. Ic. Bar. 2. t, 366. Bot. Mag. t 1035. and 1524. Ph, Am. 1. p. 222. 



Ornithogalum bivalve. L, 



Hab. Cultivated in the Bot. Garden of Glasgow, from seeds received from the N. W. Coast. 



