Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants. 191 



scarcely on the secondary veins ; nerves very prominent behind, little 

 reticulated ; radical leaves 7-lobed, with the outermost bifid, and distant ; 

 lower stem-leaves 5-lobed, the vppermost 3-lobed, and more acute ; on all 

 the leaves the segments are mucronate, but the mucro is longest on the 

 stem-leaves. Stipulie erect, ovato-linear, acute, persisting, becoming red. 

 Peduncles axillary, 2-flowered, scarcely longer than the leaves from which 

 they spring, erect, slightly compressed, glanduloso-pubescent, pubes- 

 cence spreading, red at the apex. Bractea: subulate, connate in pairs at 

 the bifurcation of the peduncle. Calyx green, segments oblongo-linear, 

 6-nerved, glanduloso-pubescent, mucronate, membranous in the edges, 

 adpressed to the corolla. Petals twice the length of the calyx, spreading, 

 obovate, emarginate, undulate, white or very" pale lilac, with somewhat 

 deejier veins, glabrous on the outside, woolly within for nearly the whole 

 of the lower half, especially at the sides, a portion in the centre beino- 

 nearly nakc(!. Disk yellow, protuberant and fleshy between the petals! 

 Filaments hairy on tlie outside, those opposite to the petals in their lower 

 half bulging outwards, the alternate ores adpressed to the germen ; up- 

 per half diverging, reddish, subulate ; hairs long, erect, simple. An- 

 thers linear, loosely attached by their backs, leaden coloured, pollen "reen. 

 ish, gi-anules spherical. Germen green, covered with simple erect hairs, 

 lobes keeled ; beaks densely covered with glandular hairs, similar to 

 those on the peduncle. Stigmata reddish, at first in contact with each 

 other, afterwards elongated, and slightly diverging. Fruit covered with 

 glandular hairs ; cells 2-seeded. 

 We have had this plant in cultivation ever since the return of Captain 

 Franklin's second expedition, and it exists in other collections. I be- 

 lieve it has been variously called, Geranium macidatum, and a variety of 

 G. angulatum. It seems most nearly to resemble the last, but I think 

 may be distinguished from either. Geranium angulatum differs from 

 G. alhiflorum, in its smooth filaments ; its longer, narrower, darker co- 

 loured, much less hairy, and less expanded petals ; its more angular, ra- 

 ther less hairy stem ; and its more wrinkled darker coloured leaves, their 

 lobes being much more serrated, and in the radical leaves the two at the 

 base generally touching each other, or even overlapping. 



Ornithogalum fimbriatum. 



O.fimbriatum; racemis multifloris, subcylindraceis; pedunculis divari- 



catis, bracteo marcescente, subacuta Jongioribus ; floribus erectis, pe- 



dunculos vix aequantibus ; foliis omnibus radicalibus, linearibus, cana- 



liculatis, scapo longioribus, marginibus nervisque dorso ciliatis. 



Ornithogalum fimbriatum. Pers. Synop. 1. 364. ? — Marsclu Bieb. Flor. 



Taur. Cauc. 1. 276. ^—Spreng. Syst. Veget. 2. 30. ?— Bot. Reg. 555 



Bot. Mag. 3077- 

 Ornithogalum ciliare. Fischer, MS. 

 Desckiption — Leaves (9 inches long) all radical, glaucous, linear, chan. 

 nelled, beautifully ciliated by equal straight and slightly reflexed hairs 

 on the margins and ribs on the back of the leaf, naked in front. Scape 

 (3 inches high), erect, nearly round, having similar hairs to those on the 

 leaves, and swelling upwards to the lowest peduncle, above this smooth 

 angular, and becoming smaller as the peduncles are given off. Flowers 

 numerous, in a terminal raceme, which is preserved of nearly a cvlin. 

 drical form by the stout, smooth and somewhat flattened peduncles be- 

 coming more and more divaricated as they elongate. Bractece membra- 

 nous, withering, subacute, shorter than the peduncles. Flowers always 

 erect ; petals while, green in the centre on the outside, spreading some- 

 what in their upper half, elliptic, the three outer the broadest. Stamens 

 half the length of the petals ; filaments erect, uniform, white, dilated at 

 the base ; anthers incumbent, yellow, versatile. PistU scarcely so long 

 as the stamens ; stigma forming three diverging lines upon the top of 

 the short, undivided, erect, white, 3-sided style; germen yellowish- 



