and the ability he has displayed in marshalling and describing 
the plants of Britain in the now nearly completed third edition 
of SoAverby's ' English Botany and as desiring, too, to connect 
his name with an Order, the European members of which he has 
for many years studied carefully under cultivation. 
Tab. 260. — 1, a closed flower; 2, an expanded flower; 3, pistil; 
4, horizontal section of ovary : all magnified. — J, G. B. 
A curious and interesting little bulbous plant, collected in the 
vicinity of St. Jago de Chili, by Mr. E. C. Reed, who sent me 
bulbs, which grew freely in a mixture of light sandy loam and leaf- 
mould. It will do well in a cold frame or greenhouse, grown in 
well- drained small pots, and fully exposed to the sun and light, 
and supplied freely with water. Dr. Syme well merits the com- 
pliment paid him by Mr. Baker for the talented exertions he has 
for a long time made in the cause of British Botany. — W. W, S. 
