its Em-opeau ally, B. officinalis, L., and is stUl more nearly allied to a Himalayan plant, detected by my friend
Mr. Edgeworth, wbose researches in the Indian Alps have been rewarded with the discovery of some well-marked
types of an .Vmcrican Flora, occurring together where they might have been least expected.
XXXVI. LABIATiE, Juss.
I . SCUTELLARIA, L .
1. SCDTELLAIIIA nummulanoefoUa, Hook, fil.; parvula, glanduloso-puberula, caidibus gracilibus basi
prostratis ascendentibus, foliis breriter petiolatis late eUiptico-oblongis rotundatisve obtusis integerrimis subenerviis
floralibus conformibus, floribus sparsis axiUaribus breriter pediceUatis.
H.vb. E a st coast ot Tierra del Fuego, C. Barwin, Esq.
Cat/if«gracües, diametro pennæ passerinæ, basi ramosi; ramis diffusis, simpliciusculis, elongatis, 2-t-uncialibus
tenuiter pubeiuMs. Folia i - i - unc. longa. subeoriacea, utrinque snbglaiiduloso-pubeniln, apice rotimdata, basi in
petiolum brevem 1 - l i lin. longam angustata. Flores pauci, majusciiU, foliis longiores, breviter pedicellati, pedicello
calyce pubenilo æqiiüongo. Corolla calyce ter longior, e basi sensim ampliata, rosea (?), pubescens, v. glabrata,
lobis superioribus lateralibusque liberis brevibus obtusis. inferiore subpendnlo, fauce püoso. Achænia immature
lævia.
Allied to the North American ft antirhhwides, Benth., but much smaller, and very different in the size of the
flowers. A variety, also gathered by Mr. Danvin at Port St. Julian on the Patagonian coast, is more stunted, densely
pubescent, with shorter leaves, and the lower bp of the corolla beai-ded internaUy. The discoverer of this species
remarks that the climate and productions of the particular locality which it inhabits, are intermediate in character
between tbose of Patagoma and Fuegia.
2. STACIIYS, L .
I . St.vchys Chonotica, Hook.fil.; herbácea, erecta, hispido-pilosa, fobis petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis
ovato-oblongisve obtusis acutisve basi cordatis obtuse crenato-serratis floralibus bracteæformibus inferioribus
calyce longioribus, verticillastris 4-8-floris remotis, calycis hispidi campanulati dentibus ovatis aristatis,
corollæ glabriusculæ tubo calyce longiore.
H.yb. Chonos Archipelago; C. Barwin, Esq.
Species ft. mjloatkæ simülima, sed folia angustiora, brevius petiolata et obtusiora crenisque obtusioribiis ;
labium inferiiis corollæ minus profunde secta. ft. Uacræi, Benth., (planta admodum variabüi) qiioqne approximat
habitu formaque foliorum, sed tubo corollæ elongato exserto lobisque latioribus labii inferioris sat differt.
A plant, so very closely resembling the ft st/loalica, L., of Great Britain, that I long hesitated on the propriety,
of erecting it into a new species, but do so in conciiiTenee witb the opinion of Mr. Bentham. Mr. Watson, also,
upon whose thorough knowledge of British plants, in all their exotic forms to which he has had access, the greatest
reliance may be placed, has, with his usual kindness, given much attention to tho present plant, and sums up the
difterences between it and European ft sylmtka, in the leaves of the latter not being so obtuse nor so obtusely
serrate, aud in the lateral lobes of the lower lip of the corollæ being more deeply divided. The loaves of the
European S.paluslrk, L., however, he adds, vary from very acutely to quite as obtusely serrate.
Not being versed in the whole genus Stachys, which contains upwards of one hundred species, I was inclined
to regard this plant as possibly intennediate between the S.syhatka of Europe, and ft. Uacræi of Chili. Mr. Bentham,
however, entirely dissents from such an opinion after a most careful review of its characters, and, I need hardly add,
that on his knowledge and experience we may rely for the vabdity of the species.
XXXVII. PE-IMULACEÆ, Juss.
1. PRIMULA, L .
1 PRiMULA/«mom, Lmn. Sp. P I. p. 205. Engl. Bot. t. 6 . B u t y in. BC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 44.
Gaud, 'in Ann. Sc. Na t. vol. iv. p. 102, et in Freyc. Voy. Bo t. p. 133. B ’ UrviUe in Mrin. Soc. In n n . B a n s ,
vol. iv. p. 606.
Var. f t Magellanica. P. Magellanica, Lehm. Monogr. Prim. p. 62. t. 6 . B u h j, in BC. Prodr. vol. x-
p. 45. P . decipiens, B u iy , in BC . I. c. (Ta b . CXX.)
H a b . Strait of Magalhaens to Cape Horn, Commerson, Capt. King, C. Barwin, Esq., J . B . H. Falkland
Islands, most abimdant, Gaudichaud, Sfc.
The exceUent plate, executed for this work by Mr. Fitch, enables tbe British botanist to form a just idea of tbe
Antarctic state or variety of F.fariiwsa, L. ; which, it wUl be seen, differs from tbe majority of those of Britain m
the short peduncles o fth e white flower, in the position of the stamens, in the tube o fth e coroUa, and m the colour
of the flowers. Uie fii-st of these characters is constant in aU the Falkland Island and Magellanic specimens of this
species, but is also seen in an individual of P.farinosa, gathered near Settle in Yorkshire by JÜ- Tatbam for which
I am indebted to my friend Mr. Watson, who not content witb examining this plant with me, had the kindness to
collate a suite of Antarctic specimens with many himdreds of British growth. The result of this exammation has
been that except, perhaps, the colom- of tbe flower, there is no constant character to distinguish the races of the
oppo’site hemispheres, neither the length of the pedicels, of the calycine segments, of the tube of the coroUa. nor
tt e position of tbe stamens in tbe latter. If, again, we grant (with M.Dnbv) tbat the P . Sootka,^ Hook., is not
even a variety of F.farinosa, the length ot the pedicel is of stiU less value, for the North Scottish individuals are
nndistinreishable. except by the colour of the coroUa. from specimens of var. f t gathered at Cape Horn by myself,
and on Mount Tam on tbe north shore ot tbe Strait of Magalhaens, by Mr. Danvin, tbese looahties bemg tbe
northern and southern extremes of its range in the Southern Hemisphere.
Lastly, on comparing var. 3 with foreign examples of F.farinosa, thefr identity is stUl more erident ; for the
latter attain the same great size in Austria that the var. (3 often does in the Falkland Islands. whUst Ai-ctic American
specimens of the two are entfrely aUke.
One ai-o-iiment wldch müitates against the common origin of the individuals from the opposite hemispheres,
must not be° overlooked ; it is the absence of the plant, and, indeed, of tbe whole genus, in any part of tbe Andes
south of 39° north lat.; a circumstance wldch makes it very difficult to account for its appearance m the two
opposite temperate zones, if aU the individuals of both liemispheres are supposed to have spmng from one parent.
P late CXX. Fig. 1, flower ; fg . 2, tbe same ; f g . 3, tbe same laid open; fig. 4, ripe capside ; /
fig. 6, longitudinal section of the same :—aU magnified.
'g. 5, seed ;
2 . ANAGALLIS, Toiirn.
1. Anagallis alternifolia, Cav. Leones, vol. r i. p. 3. t. 506. f. 2. Buby in BC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 71.
Var. densifolia, LysimacHa repens, B ' UrviUe, in Mem. Soe. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 606. Gaud, in
Freyc. Voy. Bot. p. 133. Ilook. Ic. Bla n t. t. 536.
HrAD. Strait of Magalliaens; Po rt Famine, Capt. K in g ; WoUaston Island, C. Barwin, Esq.; FaUdand
Islands, B ’ JJrville, Mr. Wright, J .B .H .
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