with saffron; all the lobes of the llower obovate and emar-
ginate; lower lip triiid, bright azure blue, lateral segments
horizontally deflected, coalescing with the central lobe, which
appears in the form of a closed carinated sacculurn includin<v
the stamina and style, and rarely opening except for an instant
when irritated apparently by heat,as with many oithelledysa-
ritms', tube of the corolla short and gibbously curved, forming
with the sacculurn an oblong canal. Stamina didynamous,
all arising from the lower lip; anthers yellow, horizontal-
the rudiment of a fifth stamen at the base of the corolla tube.
% / e long and capillary. Stigma scarcely any. GermA-seed-
ed. Capsule round, acute, shorter than the persistent calyx
by which it is inclosed, partly 1-celled and 4-valved, by abortion
2 and 3-seeded; valves opening rather more than half
way down, where undivided, uniting with the small and
imperfect receptacular dissepiment; only about a third part
of the capsule is divided by a partition. Seed brownish, oval,
or elliptic, convex on the outer side, inner side umbilicately
perforated; externally a little rugose and reticulately punctured
; (about the size of mustard seed.) Corculum flat and
erect, greenish; radicle inferior. Perisperm cartilaginous
including the corculum, perforated in the centre on the inner
side, by which orifice the seed is attached to the receptacle.”
Nuttall above quoted, p. 191- 192,.
First described by Mr. Nuttall in the work above quoted,
and from which we copied the above description; he observes
that he first became acquainted with it in 1810, when he met
with it on the alluvial soils of the Alleghany, and on the borders
ot Lake Erie, and again in 1816 on the banks of the
Ohio. Our specimens we received from Mr. George Chari-
wood, in .June last, who raised them from seeds received by
him from his friend in Philadelphia, in the cargo of curious
plants and seeds that we mentioned in our last number; the
only thing which disagrees with NuttalFs figure and description
in our specimens, is that ours appears to be rather more
pubescent. It is a very beautiful annual plant, requiring nothing
hut to be sown in the borders of the Flower-garden in
the b[)ring, and to be kept free from weeds.
I. One of the Root-leave». 2. Calyx. 3. Coi olla spieail onen, showii,.. the 4 S n
inenx ci.closed in the k eel o f the nndcr hp, wifi, the bane l, one at Ih^base of the'
tnhe. 4. Ovaiauin, ternnnated hy the Style and small .Stiqma