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which Mr. Watson may now soon bring to a completion. 

 The reader finds no mention of this under the genus Hast- 

 ingsia, p. 217, nor under the species H. alba, p. 242. But 

 an appropriate reference is made on p. 286. 



Leucocrinum, Nutt., was conjectured by Endlicher to be 

 the Mexican Weldenia, but it has just now been ascertained 

 at Kew that Weldenia is a Commelynaceous genus. 



Our species of Allium as now woi'ked out by Mr. Watson 

 with great painstaking, are thirty-six in number, exclusive of 

 the introduced A. vhieale. Some characters might be made 

 more of in living plants, such especially as those furnished by 

 the so-called " crests of the ovary." In A. stellatum these 

 crests are remarkably developed, radiating from around the 

 base of the style and recurving, the notch at the end of each 

 fitting over the base of the alternate filaments, and the under 

 side is nectariferous and attractive to bees. The flowers are 

 proterandrous. 



In separating the two species of Maianthemum we should 

 have unhesitatingly referred the large Pacific coast form to 

 M. bifolium. We should not have distinguished Lillium 

 Grayi as more than a form of L. Canadense, one which 

 extends northward to the central parts of New York. In 

 view of geographical range, size, and general appearance, we 

 should never have thought of Uvularia flava as a synonym 

 of U. grandiflora. Mr. Watson finds good characters in the 

 shape and markings of the capsule to separate U. grandiflora 

 from U. perfoliata. Has any one ripe fruit of the small, 

 yellow-flowered U. flava ? 



Chamailirium Carolinanum, Willd. This specific name 

 is properly restored. It was the original name under this 

 genus ; and the name luteum is a false one (though the plant 

 was Veratrum luteum of Linnssus), the blossoms being white 

 without a tinge of yellow, duller white in the female plant, 

 pure white in the male, the pedicels equally of this color. 



No space is left in which to notice the Notes upon the 

 Affinities and Geographical Distribution of LiliacecB, nor the 

 Descriptions of some New Species of North American Plants, 

 about fifty in number, which make up the second part of 



