Flowers from the axils of the leaves in trichotomous fascicles of 

 three to nine ; pedicels as long as the capsules, bracts minute sub- 

 ulate, at the base of each pedicel, (except the largest -when it 

 relates to the leaf). Corolla sub-filiform, tubular, one-half to three- 

 fourths of an inch in length, sub-pentangular ; throat somewhat con- 

 tracted, border minutely five-parted, scarcely visibly expanded; color 

 pale blue. 



Anthers (five) included, adherent by their backs to the tube of 

 corolla, about three times the length of the filaments, filament free, 

 one eighth of an inch long. Style somewhat enlarged upwards, exsert 

 in an oblique or curved direction ; upper two-thirds villous, glabrous 

 below, pale lilac above. Stigma stigmatose, three-parted recurve- 

 spreading. 



Calyx divisions, subulate glabrous ; capsule membranous, inflated, 

 whitish, marked by ten green lines on salient angles, three-celled. 

 Seeds oblong-ovate, attached to a central fleshy receptacle depending 

 from above. 



Octoher 25, 1858. 



President in the Chair. 



Dr. Kellogg exhibited a drawing of a species of Brodicea, very 

 common in this vicinity, supposed to be new. 



B. terrestria, {K.~) — Bulb similar to others of this class, of the size and 

 general form of a hazel nut, i. e. of a flattened base, rimmed at the 

 origin of rootlets at the flower season ; outer coat dark shreddy fibrous. 



Scape very short or subterranean ; umbel many flowered, succes- 

 sively developed, radiated pedicels two to three inches long. Flowers 

 funnel-shaped, border six-parted, three outer divisions lance-acute, 

 three inner somewhat broader, obtuse or emarginate ; stamens six, 

 three-fertile, opposite the internal divisions, introrse sagittate; another 

 extending a little beyond the abrupt point of the colored filament, 

 points incurved ; three sterile stamens petaloid, emarginate, mucro- 

 nate, infolded, longer than the fertile. Flowers blue on the divisions ; 

 the deep blue line which streaks the elevated nerve or rigid center 

 above, is of a greenish tinge below. Style one-fourth of an inch long ; 

 stigma three-cleft, divisions recurve-spreading, stigmatose ; leaves 

 radical, long, very narrow, so closely folded as to appear perfectly 

 rounded (terete ?) or terete-filiform, but by age or drying, opening out 

 so as to make manifest their canahculate character. 



Specimens have often been before the Society, and no plant is more 

 common. Our botanical curator has cultivated them for many years. If 

 described, we have not been able to recognize it as the plant in question. 



