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Dr. SMITH&apos;s Characters of a new Liliaceous Genus misled me. Mr. Menzies at the same time has communicated a suggestion of Mr. Salisbury's, that these supposed petals are barren filaments. It will appear, from the following characters and remarks, how far this idea is probable or not.

In the first place, as these plants form a most indubitable new genus, of the Liliaceous, or Patrician, order, I have called it Brodiæa, after James Brodie, Esq. F.L.S., of Brodie in North Britain, a gentleman whose scientific merits, whose various discoveries, and whose liberal communications on every occasion tending to elucidate the botany of his country in particular, require no elaborate display before the Linnean Society.

''Monogynia. Sect. 2; flores inferi.''

''Juss. 54. Sect. 1; germen superum.''

Radix bulbosa, globosa, solida, tunicâ multiplici, nervosâ. Folia bina, radicalia, vaginantia, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, involuto-canaliculata, glabra, ferè pedalia. Scapus solitarius, foliis paulò brevior, teres, glaberrimus, subsexflorus, plùs minùs tortuosus. Pedicelli umbellati, patentiusculi, filiformes, uniflori, longitudine varii. Bracteæ ad basin umbellæ, plures, lanceolatæ, scariosæ, nervosæ, acuminatæ, pedicellis longè plerumque breviores. Flores Galanthi magnitudine, pulchrè cyanei, erecti. Corolla semisexfida; tubo pallescente, laciniis regularibus, subæqualibus, latò lanceolatis, patenti-recurvis; fauce

* Hookera coronaria. Salisb. Par. t. 98. ronatâ