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sophical protestations that Lave been made against that view, 

 Kegel, and also Bentham, remand Nectaroscordum to it 

 old place under Allium; and there it is likely to remain. 

 Such deference is and will be paid to an odor and a flavor, 

 aud, as we think, rightly. 



In remarking upon the peculiar sensible property oiAlhiiirt^ 

 Bentham says that this odor is elsewhere among the Liliaceee 

 encountered only in the genus Tulhaghia and in one species 

 of Brodkca. The "BrodiiBa" which he has in miiul must 

 needs be the Chilian Triteleia nnijlora, Lindl. But this 

 plant, having a tunicated bulb and an univalve spathe, is in 

 no wise reconcilable with Triteleia proper, or witli Brodiaa. 

 It belongs rather to Lindley's Leucocoryne j^ and these are 

 raere South American onions whose perianths very closely 

 imitate those of the North American Brodicca and Triteleia 

 types. They are not at all closely related to them. Tvlhaghia, 

 a south African genus, proclaims itself next of kin to Allium 

 by its bivalve spathe as well as by its sensible properties ; 

 but in this genus tlie subterranean stem appears to be neither 

 a bulb nor a corm, but something more like a woody rhizome. 



We have within the borders of the United States one other 

 genus which is strongly alliaceous, namely, AndrostciMum.'' 

 And this agrees with Allium in all its vegetative characters, 

 even to the spathe. Its flowers are different ; yet not so very 

 different but that the admission of the species into Allmm 

 ^voiild still leave that genus less polymorphous in even floral 

 character than is the HooJcera of Pacific North America, 

 especially if Scuhertia, CaUiprora and Ilesperoscordnmhe 

 included in it. 



IjETJCOCOBTNE UNIFLORA == Trileleia miijii 



The two known species are 



^The two known species are Axdeostephium ccebttleum - A^'^^'' 

 <•«•/-«/.,,, ScLeele, Liun.-Ea, xxv. 260 (1852), A. vioJaceum, Torr. Bot. 3iex. 

 Bound. 219 (1859), and A. breviflorum, Watson, Am. Kat. vu. dLrf. 



