Will not the Editor of Gardeners' Monthly kindly correct a mistake which I note on page 185, June issue, relative to a Clematis sent him, which he describes as white ? whereas the flower which I sent was pale lavender veined with white on inside of flower. I sent it to a florist to ask if it was not Crispa, but received no satisfaction from him, and then sent it to Mr. Meehan, having tested his kindly patience often enough to feel assured that I would be enlightened as to its real botanical name. The flower is a pale delicate lavender, well-shaped, exactly like the Crispa offered this season as a novelty, and is a habitat of some localities where I have collected the bulbs (alluded to on page 181, June issue, and which by authority of Profs. Thos. Meehan, Asa Gray and Sereno Watson I now know to be Zephyranthus Atamasco) Fairy Lily, and Clematis, abounds on our water courses. I must have, in letter accompanying the specimen sent, alluded to another rampant growing white Clematis, I think Virginica, which dies off annually, bearing in greatest profusion clusters of exquisite white myrtle-like flowers, followed by seed pods so beautiful and lasting that we use them to mingle with our grass bouquets for winter decoration when stern winter holds its icy sway.

I think it will simplify matters by saying that "R. Thomson, Jr.," is my nom de plume, assumed to avoid local criticism alone - which, dreaded so much viewed afar, is not quite so terrible as my vivid imagination painted it. Spartansburg, S. C.