flower from which the sketch was made flowered in the 

 collection of Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth House, under 

 the care of Mr. Cooper, who received it from the Botanic 

 Garden at Glasgow. Mr. Cooper is one of the most 

 zealous and successful cultivators of rare plants in this king- 

 dom, and has with unremitting exertion brought together 

 the fine collection of plants now at Wentworth, by a liberal 

 system of exchanging his superfluities for those of other per- 

 sons. He has now for above twenty years had the manage- 

 ment of the Botanic Garden at Wentworth, and few culti- 

 vators deserve better the compliment of having his name 

 handed down to posterity, as engrafted in our botanical no- 

 menclature. It seems that bulbs of this singular plant flow- 

 ered about the same time at the Botanic Garden at Edin- 

 burgh, and at Mr. Dickson's nursery, bat Mr. Cooper was 

 at least one of the first who brought it into flower, and, as the 

 name Drummondia is preoccupied, the genus is named after 

 Mr. Cooper. It is possible that the plant may be found to 

 endure our climate, as the frosts are severe in Texas, but as 

 it pushes its leaves in the autumn, it probably grows in a 

 temperate situation and would be injured by our winters, 

 and at present it must be considered as a greenhouse or 

 frame plant. It is nearly allied to Zephyranthes. Two suc- 

 cessive one-flowered scapes were produced, the first of which 

 ripened seed that readily vegetated. The limb expanded 

 quite flat. The pollen viewed in the microscope is difformed 

 like that of Zephyranthes Candida, and not of the usual more 

 regular and oval form that prevails amongst the genera allied 

 to it. It is doubtful whether Z. Candida, ought not to be 

 generically distinguished by that and some other features 

 from Zephyranthes." 



1. The back of a petal. 2. Ditto of a sepal. 3, Stigma. 4. Ripe seed* 

 5. Pollen magnified. 7. Inside of the mouth of the tube, shewing the 



sessile anthers. 



Mr. Herbert speaks of another species, nearly akin 

 to this, which has flowered in the greenhouse at Spoffbrth, 

 equally from Texas. This plant has at this time (beginning 

 of January, 1836) three leaves nearly a foot and a half long, 

 and may be distinguished by the following name and cha- 

 racter. 



" Cooperia chlorosolen ; foliis sesquipedalibus, ^ unc. latis tortilibus acutis \ari- 

 dibus; germine sessili; spatha 1^-unciali tubulosa apice fenestrate. ; perianthii 

 tubo 4j-unciali viridi, limbo 1^-unc. albo sepalis viridi-apiculatis extus 

 Tiridi-lineatis; stylo seraunciam vel ultra tubo breviore." — W. H. 



