Elwesii, Chionodoxa luciliæ, and some other species were afterwards imported 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 Ægean. 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 expedition, 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.
