Elwesii, Chionodoxa luciliæ, and some other species were afterwards im¬ ported in very large numbers and now form quite a marked feature in our spring gardens.
The boat from Macri in which I had sent my collections to Smyrna arrived just before I left for Corfu, but the next day in changing steamers at Syra the box which contained the greater part of the bulbs I had collected was stolen or mislaid. I had luckily kept a small number of most of the species in my big plant box, but I never recovered the lost box . I had a day at Corfu, where the country seemed much greener and the climate much softer and less arid than in the islands of the ^Tgean. In the gardens formerly belonging to the English Governor, which had by now become half-wild, I saw a great many beautiful trees and plants, especially terrestrial orchids, which though not so varied in species as in Lycia were in great abundance and beauty.
On the whole I was very well pleased with the results of this little ex¬ pedition, which I have never found an opportunity to repeat. Though my friends, George Maw and Seebohm, both went to Smyrna, no one that I know of has since been in Lycia.
