172 Dr Grahanrs Description of New or Rare Plants. 



brous, leafy. Root-leaves numerous, lanceolato-linear, channelled, gla- 

 brous, ciliato-denticulate, flaccid, about as long as the stem. Stemdeaves 

 similar to the others, but gradually smaller, and passing into bracteae 

 upwards, scattered, and stem clasping, acuminate. Bracteae dilated at 

 the base, membranous at the edges, acute ; secondary smaller ones with- 

 in the larger. Flowers in long, lax, terminal racemes, nodding. Pe- 

 duncles clustered, glabrous, jointed in the middle, dark green in their 

 lower half, paler in the upper. Corolla {\\ inch across, when fully ex- 

 panded) white, of six, wide spread, 3-nerved, oblong, acute, petals, of 

 which the three outer are narrowest. Stamens half the length of the 

 corolla ; filaments tumid above the middle, glabrous ; anthers orange- 

 yellow, as long as the filaments, eraarginate at the apex, notched at the 

 base, bursting along the sides ; pollen very abundant, orange-yellow. 

 Pistil rather longer than the stamens ; stigma pubescent ; style declined ; 

 germen linear, trigonous, trivalvular, trilocular, dissepiments arising 

 from the centre of the valves. Ovules attached to a central receptacle, 

 and arranged in two rows in each cell. 

 Bulbs of this species were brought from Lima last spring by Mr Cruck- 

 shanks, under the generic name of Ornithogalum, and flowered in the 

 stove of the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in September. 



Celestial Phenomena Jrom January 1. to April 1. 1831, calcu- 

 lated for the Meridian of Edinburgh, Mean Time. By 

 Mr George Innes, Astronomical Calculator, Aberdeen. 



The times are inserted according to the Civil reclioning, the day beginning at midnight 

 —The Conjimctions of the Moon with the Stars are given in Right Ascension. 



