of undecipherable small lilies.” Whatever the other 
components of this seed-packet may prove to be, it is 
interesting to know that of the species included therein 
one proves to be new to cultivation and to science, and 
possesses intrinsic merits that justify its dedication to 
the distinguished traveller and cultivator to whose 
efforts its introduction to our gardens is primarily due. 
In the Martagon group, our plant, which has been figured 
from material placed at our service by Major Stern, is 
clearly a near ally of LZ. Duchartrei, Franch., figured at 
t. 8072 of this work. The features which especially 
characterise L. /urreri are its linear-lanceolate cauline 
leaves which are disposed throughout the greater part of 
the stem, and its relatively small flowers whose revolute 
perianth-segments are white with dark purple spots. In 
the lower portion of the flower these segments converge 
to form a tube under half an inchin length. The flowers 
are very strongly but pleasantly scented. Major Stern 
informs us that very little seed of this species was 
received. This seed was sown in March, 1915, in ordinary 
garden soil which, at Highdown, is particularly full of 
lime. The plants raised have proved quite hardy, and 
flowered with Major Stern for the first time in 1917, 
beginning in July and continuing in flower till August. 
They appear to thrive equally well in garden plots and 
in pots, calling for a fairly dry situation and good 
drainage. The plants fruit very freely, and the seeds 
ripen satisfactorily in the open air. The material for 
our plate was received from Major Stern in July, 1919, 
and in all the specimens so far communicated the 
inflorescence has been either strictly umbellate or re- 
duced to a single terminal flower. A character which 
appears to be variable in L. Farreri is the presence of 
tufts of white hairs at the nodes. In the example 
figured these were very marked, but in other specimens 
subsequently received the leaves and stems are quite 
glabrous, so that in this respect L. arreri shares a 
peculiarity which, as Professor Bayley Balfour has pointed 
out, is well seen in the Nomocharis group, where hairs 
may be present on or absent from the nodes in the same 
species. There would also seem to be some degree of 
variation in the size and shape of the capsules, some of 
