68 ERYTHEA. 
formed into a perianth which is turbinate below the middle: 
its flowers are horizontal or nearly so, not nodding, and 
exhale a delicate agreeable odor, and its bulb bears a re- 
markable orchid-like fascicle of few very thick fleshy roots. 
OPEN LETTERS. 
Professor Greene’s question concerning the publication 
of Vol. 5: Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by sig- 
natures, may be answered as follows: 
In addition to the signatures sent the Committee of the 
Botanical Club, A. A. A. S., sixteen other sets were sent to 
subscribers and a number to members of the Torrey Club. 
The work was announced to be in press for a year before the 
final issue of the completed volume, on the cover pages of 
Bulletin of the Torrey Club. Part 2 of the preceding volume 
of the Memoirs was also issued by signatures, and members 
and subscribers, not in arrears, were notified in 1893 that 
they could be had in that form. 
N. L. Brirron, Editor. 
Torrey Botanical Club. 
It is gratifying to have, at last, an assurance that the 
“ Check List” signatures were distributed as printed, to so 
considerable number of the subscribers and others besides 
the editors; and we are glad to feel that the dates may not 
henceforth be called in question, as the real dates of publi- 
cation. It is unfortunate, however, that at such important 
centers of botanical research as Kew, and South Kensington, 
nothing seemed to be known of the existence of these sig- 
natures as late as last November.—k. L. G. 
