rate, and the upper one to be wanting in some species.
In various species of Impatiens, as in Viola, the imperfect
flowers produce fertile seeds. De Candolle has described
them in Flora Française, tome 5, p. 629.
The specimen preserved in the Linnæan herbarium as
I. Noli me tangere is a Canadian one, and belongs to our
I . fulva, which Linnaeus did not distinguish as a species :
but the plant originally intended was undoubtedly the pale
yellow-flowered species represented in Engl. Bot. t. 937,
and in FI. Dan. t. 582. We are obliged to Mr. Forster
for ascertaining this point, by examination of Clifford’s
specimen in the Banksian collection, now in the British
Museum. The Engl. Bot. figure, although made from a
garden, agrees with our native specimens of the plant found
wild in Cumberland and Yorkshire. It has been referred
to I . pallida of Nuttall, of which we have not seen authentic
specimens, nor does the description enable us to
judge whether it is the same or not.—W. B.
