86 Orv. 2, Toemipe®. Cl. 5. Lorate. Liriogame. 
laxus, 5-9-florus. Pedunculus gracilis, teres, solidus. Pedicelli 
longi, sub petalis via crassiores. Bractew 2, basi equitantes absque 
interioribus. Species 1. Ornithogalum Bivalve L. pom in Bot. Mag. 
bis, No. 1035, 1324. 
These few Plants, though most nearly akin to Cepeec, differ suf- 
ficiently in my opinion to constitute a separate Order, lst in the 
absence of any garlie smell; 2ndly in their Leaves not so sheathing 
at the base or dilated till they form the Coats of the Bulb; 3rdly in 
their more petaloid and less scarious floral Envelope, decaying nearly 
quite away by the time their Seeds ripen; 4thly in their Seeds inde- 
finite in number wi i i 
the contine or The 
young succulent Fruit of Hesperocles indeed, when bruised, has a 
strong flavour, but not exactly alliaceous, and I could not perceive it 
in the Leaves or Peduncle. Hookera has violet-coloured Flowers, 
with only its oats Filaments dilated, either wedge-shaped or 
2-furcated, and these are in one Species castrated, without even any 
rudiment of Anthers ; its Pericarpium likewise is hardly stipitated. 
Two a were described from living Plants in those numbers of 
Paradisus ensis, which came out the Ist days of March and 
September 1808. Sir s. E. Surrng however, who in his lectures at the 
Royal Institution had compared their em. to Agapanthus, and 
mistaken their barren Filaments for 6 additio h he 
said corroborated the French doctrine rend the saline nature 
of all Monocotyledonous floral Envelopes, was so offended with me 
for contradicting his opinions, that in a Pe per read fee the publi- 
cation of my first Species, at a meeting of the Linnean agis da on 
the 9th of April 1808, but not published till 3 years after in th 
9th volume of their Transactions 1811, he called this Genus ders a 
fi m rich owner of Brodie 
House, with those tle WILLIAM ’s name to 
end to posterity glorious company of ROBERT’S, JovsERT's 
AvnRIET's, BassEPORTE's, , Se. 's, E s w- 
ERBY's, RzpovrE's, the two Bavers, and Sypennam EDWARDS, rent 
victim alas of Sir J. E. Surrn’s misrepresentations ? ? Ne i 
be thought of his own claims to eminence in the higher Bebe of 
that Ectence, to teach which he at last got the ambiguous title of 
rin n, though rejected at Cambridge, and more nei 
at ege own Alma mater Edinburgh? Is not it a fact, that, in n 
affinities, which Lrxwf declares to be the * ultimus "finis " Botanices," 
he has ju 
which was at all difficult or strange. Billardiera supposed by 
akin to Aces J., Tetratheca to Pyrola, Ceratopetalum Ms Dic- 
us, Sowerbea Allium, Persoonia to o Loranthus, Lasiopetalum 
tacee J., Correa to Rhododendra J, and lastly Brunonia to Dipsacee 
J. all toosurely warrant this last query. Themis was discovered by 
