of H. bifidus and angustus are more erect and less flaccid 
than those of versicolor, gracilis, and another species which 
we call lorifolius. Those of bifidus, at Spofforth, are a | 
foot and a half Jong, and five sixteenths of an inch wide. 
The whole genus as well as Cuiipanruus appear to like 
eat. 
: The long bulb of H. angustus was spherical when im- 
ported twelve months before. | 
The dissections represent the lowest petal, and the style 
_ with the filaments and membrane ; the upper filament bemg 
less abbreviated than the lower laterals; the lowest less 
prolonged than the upper laterals. 
ZePHYRANTHES candida has endured the, severity of the 
winter in an exposed border (Fahrenheit below 15) with- 
out losing more than the ends of its leaves. W. H.— 
