A new genus of the lily family has been named by Professor Greene in honor of the well known and enthusiastic California botanist, Dr. Herman Behr, of San Francisco. It has some relationship to Brodiaea and Triteleia, well known bulbs.

Strange to say, all that is known of it is from a fragment preserved in the herbarium of the California Academy, where it has been for perhaps twenty years. It has scarlet flowers, and appears to have been gathered at Cape St. Lucas or thereabouts. The search for more will give zest to plant collecting in California.