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tubus turbinatus germine brevior, pedicello continuatus, 

 laciniae linibi subaequales tubo valde lonociorcs, filamenta 

 complanata apice filiformi, sepalina ori tubi petalina supra 

 inserta, antherse parvulsB, stigma trigonum, stylus persistens, 

 germen obtusum breve trisulcum, odor alliaceus nuUus. 

 Quoad, vidiy petala sepalis parum avgustiora. Caloscordum 

 is therefore distinguished therefrom thus, — tubi germen 

 comprehendentis forma et articulo, filamentis profundius 

 insertis non membranacee dilatatis, stylo marcescente, limbi 

 flexu. The subject cannot be dropped, without adverting 

 to the next genera Triteleia and Brodissa, concerning the 

 first of which Professor Kunth says, that it differs in 

 nothing but a trifid stigma and emarginate anthers from 

 Pseudoscordum, and is rather a section thereof, entirely dis- 

 cardino- the connection of the latter with Allium. Such 

 trivial differences would not even constitute a section. Ger- 

 men tenuiter productum basi longe stipitata, tubus longe 

 infundibuliformis limbum valde longitudine superans, are 

 amongst other differences which separate Triteleia from Al- 

 lium and its subordinates. Concerning Brodisea, which Prof. 

 Kunth has confined to one species, grandiflora, elevating 

 congesta into a genus which he names Diclielostemma, it 

 must be remembered that both were figured and described by 

 Salisbury in Paradisus Londinensis under the name Hookera, 

 in compliment to the excellent artist of that work, and that 

 Salisbury therein accused Sir J. E. Smith of having read a 

 paper, wherein he named the plants Brodiaea without noticing 

 his name and definition after it had been published. I do 

 not know the correct facts, so as to decide whether the name 

 Brodiaea did properly supersede Hookera, but if congesta is 

 not of the same genus (as Prof. Kunth asserts) with gran- 

 diflora, on which Salisbury founded Hookera, that name 

 should remain to the latter plant, and Smith's Brodiaea be 

 confined to congesta. Professor Kunth's new character for 

 congesta is contained in 21 lines, ending thus. It is dis- 

 tinguished from Brodicea by the habit and form of the sterile 

 stamens. Let us see what difference he states. None 

 distinctly ! but on comparing the two descriptions we find 

 that in the latter they are merely stated to be ''petaloid, 

 much longer, lance-spat hulate ;" in the former they are stated 

 to be also petaloid, and their length is not noticed, leaving no 

 point but lance-spathulate for contrast with his description, 



