Our Western "Quamash," a pretty prairie bulb, has presented us with a new variety from the Pacific coast, of which the Botanical Magazine, after figuring, says: "It was discovered by Mr. John Jeffrey in British Columbia in 1853. As a garden plant my first knowledge of it was derived from our indefatigable correspondent, Max Leicht-lin, Esq. The present sketch was taken from a plant which flowered on the rockery in Kew Gardens in May, 1873. The ordinary color of the flowers of C. esculenta and of C. Fraseri, its representative in the Eastern States, is blue, but in all the specimens which I have seen of the present plant the flowers are white."