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March 5, 1860. 

 President in the Chair. 



Dr. Kellogg presented the following description of a new genus 

 of plants : 



LiLiORHiZA (Kellogg). — Corolla inferior, six petalled, bell fun- 

 nel-form, at length spreading ; petals narrowed towards the base, 

 sessile, somewhat oblanceolate, nectariferous cavity obsolete or at 

 the base ; stamens shorter than the corolla, inserted into the base 

 of the petals ; anthers extrorse, erect ; filament inserted a little 

 below the middle, at length versatile, pistil prismatic, deeply three- 

 parted, longer than the stamens ; each division grooved within ; 

 a stigmatic line on each side of the groove extending to the apex, 

 which is slightly contracted, recurve spreading. 



Roots consisting of numerous thickened bulboid scales ; stem 

 vernating from between the scales or at the base of the outer ; 

 capsule three celled and sub three-sided, angles obtuse, not winged 

 and rarely a little produced at the base ; oblong, or somewhat 

 wheel-shaped. In other respects as in Fritillaria. 



Bulbous plants with white or greenish white flowers, rarely varie- 

 gated, not tessellated, in terminal, mostly secund racemes ; the stem 

 not springing from the top of a solid bulb, but growing up from 

 below between the little thickened scales or bulbous scales. 



These remarkable plants are closely allied to Lilium, Amhlirion 

 and Fritillaria. 



To Lilium in their clustered, thick-scaled root, usually in threes, 

 with the flower stem springing from the base or between the scales ; 

 to Amhlirion in its dwarf habit ; and to Fritillaria in its deep- 

 ly trifid style and six-angled capsule. It however differs from 

 Lilium in its corolla, anthers and pistil, although in our Cali- 

 fornian L. superhum the style is somewhat three-parted, and the 

 capsule also similar ; from Amhlirion chiefly in the ovary and 

 style ; ^vom Fritillaria more particularly in the origin of the stem, 

 which, instead of growing out of the top of a solid bulb, starts from 

 below, springing out of the base, between the thickened bulboid 

 scales, in the anthers, different position, (when present) of the nec- 

 tariferous cavity, form of the flower, and its never being tessel- 

 lated, etc. 



lAliorldza lanceolata (Kellogg). Fig. 1. Stem eight inches to 

 one foot in height, glancous, obsoletely scabrulous, with minute 

 frosty granules, very finely striate (under the glass) striae very 

 minute. 



Leaves alternate and remote above, clustered or rarely sub- 

 whorled below with the petaloid bases always subterranean in the 



