•ü
I ' ft .1
t .
i • . : ''iii
. :;.;r ■; i,I
ii l l
!'T ili
;I Iiv 'I'''-fI't; ¡-i « (rfjj
i I Si
bilocular, with two fleshy parietal placentæ, compressed,
glabrous, bristly at the top; cells anterior and posterior;
valves membranous; dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds indefinite,
oval, with a pitted spongy testa.
This species may be regarded as approximating the
Hydrophylleæ to the Solaneoe, having entirely the habit of
one of the latter family, and being clothed with glandular
clammy pubescence, similar to that found on many of them.
When in blossom few plants possess greater attractions from
the extreme brilliancy of its flowers, which are of the deepest
azure. If the plants are stunted by being kept in pots, or
planted in a poor soil, their appearance altogether will be
much improved. It is a hardy annual, and is easily multiplied
by seeds which it perfects freely in the open border.
It is a native of California, where it was discovered by the
late Mr. Douglas, and from seeds transmitted to the Horticultural
Society by that enterprising botanist the plant was
raised in the spring of last year.
Our drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Allen
and Rogers at Battersea, in June last.
For the meaning of the generic name see fol. 334.
D . Don.
1. Portion of the corolla, with the stamens. 2. Pistil.
Corrections in Numbers for August and September.
No. 87, fol. 346. LASIOPUS SONCHOIDES.
We find we have been misled in stating this plant to be from Armenia. I t will
most probably prove to be a native of South America, as it evidently comes nea r to
Macrorhynchu8 of Lessing. We would suggest th e substitution of E n o p u s for Lasiopus^
as there happens to be already a genus of Composite bearing the la tte r name, and we
subjoin the following additions to our former description.
Scapi solidi, ra ro ramulo uno alterove instruct!. Achenia^ oblonga, compresso-4-angula.
undique tu b e rcu lato 'scab ra: rostro cylindraceo, breviore. albus, multiserialis,
capillaris, scaber, fragilis, inequalis.
No. 90, fol. 359. IBERIS CORONARIA.
This is evidently related to Z. amara, but in th a t the style is double th e length of the
lobes of the silicula, and the seeds are wingless.
Fol. 359, lines 8 and 9, for corymbosis read racemosis.