Dr Graham's Lut of Rare Plants. 157 



bracing the stem, middle bent tack, apex ascending, acute. Flowers 

 white, solitary in the axils of the leaves, collected into subterminal 

 pseudo-spikes, on peduncles shorter than the leaves. Calyx leufets oblong, 

 blunt, white. Corolla white; tube campanulate, equal to the calyx, 

 nectariferous ; limb 5-parted, segments ovate, blunt, spreading. Sta- 

 mens alternating with the segments of the corolla ; filaments adhering 

 to the tube, the free portion erect, shorter than the limb ; anthers bi- 

 locular, bursting along the face. Germen spheroid, with a short style 

 rising from the depressed apex, and supporting a stigma of five erect 

 blunt lobes. 



We received this plant at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1035, from 

 Mr Westland's nursery, near Dorking, Surrey, where a large stock of 

 scarce plants, and of EpacridcB in particular, are cultivated with a very 

 remarkable degree of success. It tlowered in the greenhouse during the 

 month of March. 



Mr Brown places this species next to E. pulchella, and, were it not for his 

 authority, I should certainly have considered it only a variety of this. I 

 do not find the difference in the form of the calyx segments, nor of the 

 leaves, which Mr Brown observes, and would rest the chief distinction 

 on the more slender, less tortuous branches of £. microphylla, the hairi- 

 ness of the young shoots, the shortness of the peduncles in relation to 

 the leaves, and in the pseudo-spikes being collected nearer the extremi- 

 ties of the branches. 



Fritillaria ruthenica. 



F. ruthenica ; caule subunifloro ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, imis superiori- 

 busque subtematis, illis obtusis, his, intermediisque^ sparsis, cirrhosis ; 

 floribus tesselatis cernuis. 

 Fritillaria ruthenica, Wickstrom f 

 Corona verticillata, Fischer. MS. 



Description — Stem slender. Leaves linear-lanceolate, glaucous, chan- 

 nelled above, 3-6-nerved below, upper ones erect, the others spreading, 

 lowest and uppermost subternate, those which intervene scattered at 

 distances gradually increasing upwards, all terminated by cirrhi, except- 

 ing those composing the lowest verticel, which are more or less blunt. 

 Flowers cernuous, in the specimen described two, the one terminal, 

 springing from the centre of three leaves, the other a little below the 

 apex, ana subtended by two leaves, which are in contact on one side of the 

 stem. Peduncles (half an inch long) resembling the stem. Perianth cam • 

 panulate, tesselated, dark purple on the outside, somewhat paler within, 

 segments terminated with a small tuft of minute hairs, and having along 

 the centre of the inside of each a linear green mark, which leads to a 

 subrotund nectary near the base, corresponding to a large gibbosity with- 

 out, inner segments obovate, outer elliptical and narrower. Stamens half 

 the length of the perianth; filaments filiform, very slender; anthers 

 erect, equal in length to the filaments, yellow, elliptical ; pollen granules 

 yellow, minute, subglobular. Pistil longer than the stamens, but shorter 

 than the perianth; germen green, 3-sided, slightly contracted at its ori- 

 gin ; style green, about as long as the germen, trifid, with internal deeply 

 grooved stigmatic surfaces. 



This neat little species of Frilillaria was received by Dr Neill under 

 the name here adopted, from the Botanic Garden, Berlin, in August 

 1835, and flowered in his greenhouse at Canonniills, near Edinburgh, in 

 the following April. No doubt it will thrive in the open air as well as 

 any of the species. 



I refer to Wickstrom with doubt, because 1 have not an opportunity of 

 consulting his original observations, and the definitions of the species by 

 authors who quote him, scarcely apply to the plant before me. The MS. 

 name of Fisclier is attached to a specimen in my herbarium from the 

 south of the Volga, which he with his usual kindness sent to me. It 



