are the petals also at the back ; limb 4-cleft, the segments
lanceolate, acute, or sometimes bluntish, spread-
nig, about half the length of the tube. Petals A, spread-
border of the calyx, ovate, bright
reddish purple. Stamens 8, also inserted in the mouth of
tlie calyx ; jilaments smooth, yellovr, tapering upwards
inserted in the back of the anthers, a little above the
base ; afihers bent, declining, nearly as long as the
hlanients one-lobed, bursting at the point for the ex-
clusion of the pollen, and bearing a small subulate spur
at the base. Ovanum smooth. Style smooth, a little
longer than the filaments. Stigma a small head.
fo r the opportunity afforded us of giving a fio-ure of
fois rare and beautiful species, we are obliged to Robert
Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, from whom we received
It in flower in September last; the plants were
sent from America by Mr. T. Nuttall, and we are in-
fbrmed by Mr. D. Cameron, that they are more difficult
to flower than R. mariana and R. virginica, and will
not expand well, except covered up by glass, either a
frame or hand-glasses ; from the figure in Pursh’s Flora
of North America, we were at first doubtful whether
ours was the same species ; but by the kindness of
A . B . Lambert, Esq. we were allowed to examine his
specimens, some of which were precisely like ours; the
figure m Pursh s work having been made from a very
weak imperfect specimen, as stated by Nuttall in his
genera ot North American plants.
Like the other species of the genus, the present re-
^ planted m a sandy peat soil, and is increased
by dividing at the root.
The generic name* is derived from the Greek pijgze
rupture and was used by Pliny, for a Boraginous plant!
said to be good for the cure of rupture ; the present genus
to which it is applied, is not possessed of any such
virtue. ^
*1. *?“ ® open, showing the insertion o f the eieht Stamens
Mted bl*'thp''si 1 If® spni- at tlie natea by the Style and^small capitate Stigma, base. S. Ovarium, termi-’