early spring, and the calyces are always fertile. Perigonial
leaves, fig. a. on separate shoots, crowded, concave, sometimes
3-toothed, the anterior segment inflexed, and forming
an auricle for the lodgment of the anthers.
J . inflata has the leaves, fig. b. of a roundish form, concave,
deeply bifid, the segments obtuse or parabolic: though
larger than those of J . turbinata, they are composed of an
exceedingly minute reticulation, and we have always found
the perichmtial leaves much smaller than the rest, erect and
appressed: the stems, too, are usually upright, though the
plant is liable to vary in its mode of growth. It is admirably
figured and well described in Dr. Hooker’s excellent monograph.—
W. W.
