eroso-truncate, with short claws, on the inside of which near the base 
is a nectariferous pore. STaMENs 6, with short filaments; the anthers 
adnate, 2-celled, each cell bursting inwardly by a valve opening up- 
wards. PisTm with a membranous one-celled ovary, the style short, 
laterally attached. Strema dilated and crisped at the margin. OvuLES 
(in this specimen) 2, erect, attached by funicular chords to a pedicel- 
late receptacle. J. 8. HEnsiow. 
Poputar AND Geocraputcat Notice. This plant is found in the 
corn-fields of Greece and Asia Minor, and was noticed by Rauwolf so 
long ago as the year 1573 as the “true Chrysogonum” of Dioscorides. 
He describes it in a chapter of his travels the title of which it is thus 
given in the translation by Ray. “A short and plain relation of plants 
which I gathered during my stay at Halepo, in and round about it, 
not without great danger and trouble, which I glued upon paper very 
carefully.” We believe that no figure of it has been published within 
the last century, but it has been represented five or six times in the 
rude cuts of the early botanists between 1582 and 1714. Meyen has 
separated this species from the rest of the Genus, under the name of 
Bongardia Rauwolfii, on account of the want of the scale on the inside 
of the petals, and the dilated stigma. But we are unwilling to admit 
the validity of the former flicient generic character, since a similar 
circumstance takes place in the genus Ranunculus; and we are not 
sufficiently impressed with the importance of the latter to consider it 
worth while to subdivide so small a genus as Leontice from this alone. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE Grown; CuLTurE. This specimen flow- 
ered last March (1837), in the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, where 
two of the tubers had been sent the previous August by Mr. Hunne- 
man, with a note that they were the “ Bongardia Rauwolfii, from Persia; 
~ made use of by the natives as an edible vegetable.” It grew about six 
inches high, and should be potted in a sandy compost. A cool part 
of the greenhouse is better suited to its early habit of vegetating than 
the cold frame. 
Derivation or tHE Names. 
_ Leonrice, Ncovruen, a classical name of some plant; adopted by Linneus 
instead of the ancient name of this species, Leontopetalum. CurysoconuM, 
Xpveoc gold, yovu the knee, where bright yellow flowers spring from the fork or 
knees © stem, scarcely applicable in the present case. 
Synonymegs, 
We can refer to no modern figure of this plant. Morrison: Plantarum his- 
toria universalis, Vol. II, Sect. 3, tab. 15, fig. 7. give a rude representation of it. 
