CXXxiY PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
present known. I must first correct an error of nomenclature, 
having distributed some bulbs under the name of C. Forbesii. 
Dried specimens of nearly allied species, especially of bulbous 
plants, are often difficult to determine, and those submitted to 
Mr. Baker were badly dried and shrivelled, roughly pressed at 
the time of collecting in a pocket-book; hence it is that the 
Lycian species, C. Forbesii , has been confounded with the 
western Anatolian C. Lucilice, from the mountains of the east of 
Smyrna. I have also a second species from Crete, for which I 
am indebted to Mr. Sandwith, H.M.’s Consul, of less beauty 
than the Anatolian plants. These I believe are the only two 
species that have ever been in cultivation. Chionodoxa 
Lucilice I first gathered out of flower on the flanks of the Taktalie 
Dagh, at a height of from 2,500 to 4,000 feet, and I could 
not at the time distinguish it from one of the numerous species 
of Scilla which abound in Levant. T obtained with it out of 
flower, Scilla bifolia. On my second day’s excursion from the 
little Turkish village of Taktalie, which I had made my head¬ 
quarters for the examination of the interesting range of 
mountains, including the Taktalie and Nymph Dagh, I ascended 
to the summit of the latter mountain, and just as we were 
returning, my Greek and Turkish attendants became botanically 
excited and beckoned me to a spot a little way off at an altitude 
of about 4,300 feet—a bank-side thickly covered with Chionodoxa 
Lucilice , the most brilliant floral display I ever beheld—a bright 
mass of blue and white, resembling Nemophila insignis in 
colour, but even more intense in effect, and round about it was 
a complete garden of bulbous plants, including a small yellow 
Fritillary, Colchicum bulbocodoides, two or three species of 
Tulips, some yellow Gages, Croci, and great tufts of Galanthus 
Elwesii , with leaves half a yard long. Of Chionodoxa Lucilice 
as a highly decorative and perfectly hardy plant I can speak 
with great confidence. The roots dug up in 1877 flowered but 
sparingly last year, but notwithstanding the late severe winter 
the patches out of doors have fully recovered their transplanta¬ 
tion, and are flowering as well as in their native habitat, 
forming the most brilliant tufts, in which the foliage is almost 
hidden by the masses of flowers, which tell out as bright spots 
in the spring garden, some of the scapes bearing from eight to 
ten flowers one inch in diameter. I have had it in flower for 
