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species of his district; but he long ago expressed to us the opinion that 
this could hardly be Michaux’s original species. Dr. Wm. T. Feay, of 
Savannah, several years ago had the good fortune’ to meet with the 
original yellow-flowered species, and the acuteness to mark the distinc- 
tions. But only this spring was he able to procure fresh specimens, and 
to place them in my hands for confirmation. My attention being thus 
called to this genus, it was not difficult to ascertain that my lamented 
associate had brought together, under his name of S. Michauxti, three 
nearly related but distinct species. This does not include still another 
plant, of which a flowering raceme only, collected by Mr. Pratten in 
California, had been submitted to him by Mr. Durand, and which, at his 
suggestion, was published in Durand’s Plante Pratteniane under the 
name of Schenolirion album. 1 know nothing of this Californian species, 
l and it certainly needs confirmation. I can, however, perfectly identify 
the original species. When examining the Michauxian herbarium at 
the Jardin des Plantes, in 1839, I could find no specimen of this rare 
“ Phalangium croceum.” I sought and found it, however, in the herba- 
rium of L. C. Richard, the editor of Michaux; and the possessor, Achille 
Richard, kindly permitted me to take a capsule and a couple of flowers, 
which, with my notes, are still preserved. Now that we know there is 
a yellow-flowered species, I cannot doubt that this is Michaux’s plant, 
and it inhabits a district which he repeatedly traversed. Moreover it is 
also well described by Nuttall (Gen. Pl. i. 220), who distinctly states 
that the flower is “ saffron-yellow,” a statement which Dr. Torrey must 
: have overlooked. The species may be distinguished by the following 
brief diagnosis : — - 
(1.) S. croceum. Flowers saffron-yellow ; divisions of the perianth 
oblong, 3-nerved ; filaments nearly filiform ; leaves (arid, gramineous, 
Nutt.) harrow and tougher than in the following, Phalangium croceum, 
ichx. Fl, i. 196; Nutt. Gen. i. 220. Southwestern part of Georgia, 
Michaux, Feay, ete. 
(2.) S. ELLIOTT Feay. Flowers wbite ; divisions of the perianth 
oval, mostly 5-nerved; filaments subulate. Ornithogalum croceum, Ell. 
Sk. i. 397, excl. syn. Schenolirion croceum, Torr. quoad syn. Ell; 
Chapm. FI. 463. S. Georgia and Florida. 
_(@) S. Texanum. Flowers white; divisions of the perianth oblong, 
3-nerved; filaments subulate. Ornithogalum Texanum, Scheele in Lin- 
_ "@a, xxiii. 146. Schenolirion Michauzxii, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 220, 
excl. syn. Michx. and Ell. E. Texas, and adjacent borders of Louisiana. 
' B ALBUN. Durand, Pl. Pratt in Jour. Acad. Philad. n. ser. iii. 103, 
m California, needs confirmation. — Asa GRAY. 
ANTHERS ry TRILLIUM. — These are described, and on the whole cor- 
rectly, as introrse Tn Trillium, while they are extrorse in Paris, and in 
the Himalayan Trillidium, which is between the two. The species 
vary some, such as Z, cernuum, having an almost marginal dehiscence. 
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