Botany and Zoology. 427 
A Revision of the Genera and Species of Herbaceous Capsular 
Gamophyllous Liliacee, by J. G. Baxxr, F.LS., &e. The ad- 
jectives here employed ‘distinctly limit the porti ons of oe great 
Liliaceous family, to which Mr. Baker here devotes himse at 
he intends to go through the order in this way seems cae 
bl reati itati 
universally regarded as of ordinal value, in the extrorse anthers, 
separated styles and septicidally dehiscent capsules of Colehi- 
cacew,” apparently under the impression that these characters and 
blend, may upon consideration show that so complete a separation 
is ee practicable; a ndee the atte - 
noticed, long ago, by Dr. Chapman), for its anthers are extrorsely 
attached although slightly introrsely dehiscent. J a“ is in 
Same case, while Zrilliwn is nearly asin Uvularia. Mr, Baker 
brings the plants he deals with under 27 genera, including our Hes- 
perocallis, which had escaped notice when the Clavis was printed. 
ie 
the m nd close 
atnight. This is on the authority of Mr. Schott, a proves to ene 
been the first discoverer of the plant. Moreover, which is o 
consequence, he collected and has supplied us with the “bulb. ” It 
really is a tunicated bulb ; and so the genus falls out of the tribe 
Hemerocallidee, and seemingly into Mr. Baker’s Odontostemone, 
- which we would like to have Mr. Baker substitute the name of 
ocallé 
Ce. further interest in this re as 
N, n Botany, centers in Brodieva and its allies. In this 
enus he (as w ooker, in Pos io ains the remarka- 
oortia. 
by the late Mr. Lobb ; and he follows atic: 2a Wh cle 
suggested by reducing Torrey’s ton likewise to Brodiva. 
On the other hand he pe eee from Bentham’s view, and refers all 
the hexandrous ne and oa sup justly, to 
swallows up Triteleia, C even Hesperose 
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