tally, but not equally, for the five upper petals are more 
inclined upwards, and stand nearer to each other than the 
lower one, which is deflexed, and, as it were, apart from the 
rest: each is linear-oblong, somewhat concave, a little 
keeled on the back, faintly striated, at the base a little 
waved, and contracted into a sort of claw or unguis, and 
there having the sides conduplicate. The petals remain, 
as well as the stamens, till the fruit advances to maturity. 
Filaments as long as the corolla, slender, white, inserted 
into the base of the petals. Anthers versatile, oblong, 
yellow. Germen obtusely trigonal, roundish, three-celled ; 
ovules placed in two rows, in the centre, in the internal 
angle of each cell. Style filiform, as long as the stamens. 
Stigma minutely and unequally trifid. The ripe fruit I 
have not seen. 
I have given a description of this interesting and very 
desirable plant, because, although the blue-flowered state 
of it is already published at tab. 1574 of this. work, yet, 
in the shape and size of those blossoms, there is a con- 
siderable difference from those here figured. Our blue and 
white-flowered varieties agree in every thing excepting 
colour. It will be at once seen by Mr. Gawter’s figure, 
that the flowers there are not half so large as these; nor is 
the irregularity of the petals there observed, which is so 
striking in our plant, and is indicated even in the bud : so 
that, probably, this irregularity, taken in conjunction with 
the peresiget corolla, will, at some future time, when we. 
shall be better acquainted with the fruit, cause this plant 
to be separated from Scizxa, no less than from PHaLaANGIuM. 
and AnrHericum, with which it has, by some authors, been 
placed. | 
Our roots were brought from the shores of the Columbia, 
on the North-west coast of America, by Dr. ScouLer, in 
1826, and being planted in a border, and covered with a 
frame, the flowers, both blue and white, were produced in 
May, 1826. Two blossoms only seemed to be in perfection 
at a time, and those continued but for one day, when two 
more expanded, and so on in succession. _ " 
The roots are eaten by various Indians on the North-. 
west coast of America: and a kind of cake, which Dr. 
Scouter met with among the natives of the Columbia, is. 
supposed to be made of them. 
Fig. 1. Petal and Ditinke. 2. Back view of “ ee 3. Pistil. 4 
Section of the Germen.—Magnified. ie gas . 
