ground ; a property we can hardly anticipate, considering 

 how dry and mild a climate is that of California compared 

 with England. In the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 they have been planted in the open border, in a light loamy 

 soil, in a cold frame, where they grew with considerable 

 vigour, flowered beautifully, and produced some abundance 

 of seed. 



Mr. Bentham, in his remarks upon these plants in the 

 Horticultural Transactions, observes — that " this species 

 resembles very much the succeeding one, but the flowers 

 are larger, the petals both longer and broader, of a whit- 

 ish colour, marked towards the centre with a shallow pit, 

 covered with inflected hairs, glabrous below it, above 

 it slightly covered with scattered hairs, and almost 

 naked at the border, where the few hairs that straggle 

 so far are turned inwards, and by no means form a fringe 

 as is the case in C. pulchella.'' 



He also observes, that " the Calochorti of Douglas with 

 pendulous flowers, including the C. elegans of Pursh, belong 

 certainly to the genus CyclobotJira established by Sweet, 

 rBritish Flower Garden, 3, t. 173,) for the Fritillaria bar- 

 hata of Kunth, and are nearer allied to Fritillaria than to 

 Calochortus, but sufficiently distinct from either." 



To this we may add that the Cyclohotkras may not only 

 be known by their nodding flowers, but also by the presence 

 of a deep honey-pit a little below the middle of the petals, 

 whence the latter have a humped appearance externally ; 

 while, on the contrary, Calochortus is destitute of the honey- 

 pit, in room of which is only a slight discolouration ; the 

 seeds also are different in the two genera : in Calochortus 

 they are flat and smooth ; in Cyclobothra they are roundish 

 and angular. The generic character of Calochortus may 

 therefore be thus expressed : — 



Calochortus, Pursh. Flores erecti, explanati, pa- 



tentes. Sepala glabra, convoluto-acuminata. Petala ma- 

 jora, rotundata, plana, medio barbata, basi maculata, glabra. 

 Stigmata 3. Capsula triangularis, coriacea. Semina serie 



simplici affixa, plana, testa suberosa Bulbi tunicati Cali- 



fornici, foliis convoluto-acuminatis, rigidis. 



