500 Liliaceea—Calochortus. 
1. C. Leichtlinii.—A recent introduction from California. It is 
a dwarf plant with nayrow glaucous incurved leaves and slender 
scapes 4 to 7 inches high, bearing large white flowers 24 inches 
across, with a purple blotch on each of the inner segments. 
C. veniistus, lilac, C. élegans, white, and C. nitidux. purple, 
from the same region, are all splendid plants. 
4, CYCLOBOTHRA. 
Allied to Calochértus, but all the peri- 
anth-seements are bearded within and 
provided with a honey-pit in the centre. 
Bulbs tunicated, producing erect leafy stems. 
Outer divisions of perianth about half as 
large as the inner. Also natives of North 
America. The name is a compound of 
KUKXOS, a circle, and BoOpos, a pit, referring 
to the cavities above mentioned. 
1. C. litea.—This species grows about a 
foot high with leek-like leaves and two or 
three terminal yellow flowers. Exterior seg- 
metts of the perianth greenish, the inner 
yellow, bordered with purple hairs. The 
stem is often bulbiferous in the leaf-axils. 
2.) purpiirvea.—A more showy plant 
about 2 feet high. Outer segments of the 
perianth vreen and purple outside and yel- 
low within ; the inner segments purple out- 
side and yellow within. Both are natives 
of Mexico, and rather tender. 
5, FRITILLARIA. 
The affinity of this genus is mainly with 
Lilium, itself, differing however in having 
a trifid style and six glands within and at 
the base of the perianth; hence the name, 
from the Latin fritillus, a dice-box. They 
are bulbous herbs with leafy stems and 
drooping axillary or terminal bell-shaped 
Vig. 245, 
Tritillaria nperiatis, flowers. All are natives of the northern 
(About gnatsie) hemisphere, chiefly European and Asiatic, 
a few extending to North America. 
1. Fe imperialis, Crown Imperial (fig. 245).—This is sup- 
