TRANSACTIONS 



OF THK 



LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



I. Characters of a new Liliaceous Genus called Brodicea. By James 

 Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. 



Read April 19, 1808. 



I HAVE had occasion, in treating of tlie distinctions between a 

 calyx and corolla, Introduction to Botany, 263, to advert, to a 

 new o-eniis of the liliaceous family, furnished with internal pe- 

 tals. It consists of two species, both which I have received, in a 

 dry state, from Mr. Menzies, who discovered them in 1792 in 

 New Georgia on the west coast of North America. The same 

 liberal friend, to whom the Linnean Society, as well as myself, 

 has so often been obliged, perceiving I had, in the place above 

 mentioned, fallen into an error respecting the number of the in- 

 ternal petals, which are 3, not 6, has favoured me with his ori- 

 ginal drawings, made from living plants on the spot, with dis- 

 sections. By these 1 am enabled better to understand the sub- 

 ject than 1 could from dried specimens, which I had been un- 

 willing to submit to the process of boiling and anatomizing, till 

 I might have occasion to investigate them thoroughly for precise 

 description. Hence the divided inner .petals of one of them 

 VOL. X. B misled 



