By Mr. John Lindley. 



from which they have been sent is so rich that there are none 

 but fine plants to collect. 



L. Placet is a more robust plant than L. nitida, with more 

 pungent needle-like hairs, and larger flowers. The botanical 

 differences in the two species are these : 



In L. nitida the sepals are toothed and shorter than the 

 petals, the wings of the corona very small, toothed, and 

 stalked, the stamens much shorter than the petals, the style 

 straight, shorter than the stamens, and the sepals erect, and 

 much shorter than the pear-shaped capsule. 



In L. Placet, on the contrary, the sepals are scarcely 

 toothed, reflexed, and as long as the petals, the wings of the 

 corona sessile, and quite entire; the longest of the stamens as 

 long as the petals, the style bent, longer than the stamens, the 

 sepals reflexed, and longer than the obovate capsule. 



BULBOUS PLANTS. 



LVL Allium striatellum. 



Qrnithogalum gramineum. SimB. 



In the year 1822, the Society received from Mr. Place, 

 among his collection of Chilian seeds, several kinds of small 

 bulbs which, in packing up, had not been separated. One of 

 these blossomed, and was figured in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 

 2419, where it was called Ornithogalum gramineum; but as 

 it is certainly an Allium, and nearly related to Allium striatum, 

 Bot. Mag. tab. 1035, it is proposed to call it, with reference to 

 the proximate species, A. striatellum. It is a delicate plant, 

 with narrow, bright-green leaves, and a slender scape, so feeble 

 as to be scarcely able to bear the weight of the few flowers with 



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