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Leichtlini, creamy white, tinged with green on back. 



The alliums or onions are pretty, small, flowers, mostly light to 

 deep rose color. A. serratum is very dark and rich; A. unifolium 

 is light rose; haematochiton, and fimbriatum, are other fine sorts. 



Muilla maritima is whitish, resembling the alliums. 



Bloomeria aurea is a fine plant, with large umbels of golden 

 flowers. B. Clevelandi is similar but only a few inches high. 



Brevoortia coccinea is a fine thing, the petals crimson, tipped 

 with pea-green, related to the brodiaeas. 



Camassia esculenta is 1 to 2 ft. high, stout with dark blue to 

 nearly white flowers; C. Leichtlini has light blue flowers. 



Zygadenus Fremontii, the California water-lily, bears creamy- 

 white flowers in fine spikes, varying in height from a few inches 

 to four feet according to the native ground. 



Chlorogalum pomeridianum is tall and produces a spike bearing 

 hundreds of small, pearly-white flowers. 



Brodiaea is a genus of beautiful plants, peculiar to California, 

 producing in midsummer clusters of bright, glossy flowers, gener- 

 ally of long duration. The prominent species are — 

 Brodiaea grandiflora, bearing a large, purple umbel; 

 minor, smaller than the above; 

 congesta, producing a slender scape; 

 capitata, showy; 

 gracilis, and B. ixioides, with yellow flowers. 



The fritillarias are handsome plants related to the Crown Im- 

 perial: F. recurva is brilliant crimson; F. liliacea and pudica are 

 white; atropurpurea, purple; lanceolata and parviflora yellow; and 

 biflora nearly black. 



Erythronium grandiflorum, 'dogstooth violet' is a pretty thing: 

 var. albiflorum has large, yellow flowers and beautifully mottled 

 leaves ; var. Smithii produces nodding, bell-shaped, purple flowers. 



(To be continued.) 



REVIEWS. 



'The botanical gazette' announces in its Association number 

 of Sept. & Oct. that it will enlarge to 24 pp. at the close of its 

 present, tenth, volume and increase its subscription price to $2. 

 This is one of the ablest conducted, and the leading botanical, 

 monthly in the country. 



'The Century' completes its thirtieth volume with the October 

 number, which contains an interesting 'Study in independent 

 journalism,' with a portrait of Samuel Bowles. A finely illustra- 



