TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE | 
LINNEAN SOCIETY. 
I. Characters ofa new Lilidecous Bono called Brodiea. Bi y James 
Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. 
Read | April 19, 1808. 
I HAVE had occasion, in seein of the detain ra a 
calyx and corolla, Introduction to Botany, 263, to advert to a 
new genus of the liliaceous family, furnished with internal pe- 
tals. ft consists of two species, both which I have received, in a 
dry state, from Mr. Menzies, who discovered them in 1792 in 
New Georgia on the west coast of North America. The same 
liberal friend, to whom the Linnean Society, as well as myself, 
has so often been obliged, perceiving I had, in the place above 
mentioned, fallen into an error respecting the number of the in- 
ternal petals, which are 3, not 6, has favoured me with his ori- 
ginal drawings, made from living plants on the spot, with dis- 
sections. By these I am enabled better to understand the sub- 
ject than I could from dried specimens, which I had been un- 
willing to submit to the process of boiling and anatomizing, till 
I might have occasion to investigate them thoroughly for precise 
description. Hence the divided inner petals of one of them 
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