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coloured, and have but a small dark spot at their base. The hairs 

 of the inner surface are of the same colour as the petal, and there 

 is neither the transverse brown streak on the inside, nor the green 

 rib on the outside of C. macrocarpus. The roots transmitted by 

 Mr. Douglas have grown freely, and many have already been 

 distributed. 



CALOCHORTUS VENUSTUS. Dougl. MSS. (Plate 15, fig. 3.) 

 C. caule paucifolio sub-bifloro sepalis erectis, petalis praeter fasciculum pilorura 

 glabris basi rubris et versus apicem macula rubra notatis. 



This is again a species resembling C. macrocarpus in the size 

 of the flowers. It differs from C. splendens by the straight 

 sepals marked with a dark spot at their base, from C. macro- 

 carpus by the absence of the green rib on the petals, from both, 

 by their colour which is a pure white, with the lower part marked 

 in streaks of deep red on a yellow ground and with a spot 

 near the extremity of each petal, much resembling a drop of blood. 

 Like the preceding one it is a very handsome species, and has 

 been raised in a sufficient quantity for distribution. 



Cyclobothra pulchella. (Plate 14. fig. 1.) 



Calochortus pulchellus, Dougl. MSS. 

 C. umbellis 2-3-floris, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus, fioribus globosis, petalis 

 ovatis obtusis serrulato-fimbriatis fovea valde excavata extus callosa sepalis ovato-lan- 

 ceolatis acuminatis vix brevioribus. 



The Calochorti of Douglas with pendulous flowers, including the 

 C. elegans of Pursh, figured Vol. 7, PL 2, of these Transactions, 

 belong certainly to the genus Cyclobothra established by Sweet, 

 (British Flower Garden 3, t. 173,) for the Fritillaria barbata of 

 Kunth, and are nearer allied to Fritillaria than to Calochortus, but 

 sufficiently distinct from either. Cyclobothra pulchella is about a 

 foot in height, much branched, each branch terminating with an 



