spots beneath; lower leaves shorter, lanceolate and obtuse,
the lowest of all often nearly ovate; these latter leaves
usually want the reflexed margin. Flowers terminal, cy-
mose, large and handsome, fully twice as large as those of
II. humifusum. Calyx deeply divided into5 lanceolate,acute
segments, which are fringed with stalked glands, almost
amountingto serratures, and have several rows of black dots
on the underside near their margins. Petals yellow, broadly
ovate, obtuse, fringed with sessile black glands in their
upper part. Stamens combined by the bases of their filaments
into 3 bundles, each of which almost always consists
of 10 stamens, or 30 or more in all : in H. humifusum the
writer of this has never observed more than 5 in each bundle,
and sometimes less, or 15 or less in all, and he suspects
that the representation of a larger number in t. 1226. has
originated in a mistake. Germen ovate, yellow, with 3
long straight styles. Capsule ovate-lanceolate, one third
longer than the calyx, 3-celled, with numerous seeds; usually
quite covered by the persistent faded corolla.
The writer had the good fortune to detect this beautiful
plant upon the slope of a hill below La Crete guardhouse,
St. Catherine’s Bay, Jersey, in July 1837, and also, during
the summer of 1839, on the slopes of the south side of Cape
Cornwall, nearly the most westerly point of England. The
specimens figured were sent from the latter place in July.
It has also been found, as we learn from a notice in Annals
o f Nat. Hist. v. 6. p. 76, by the Rev. Thomas Hincks, of
Cork, “• among granite rocks near the banks of the Teign,
Devon.”
H. humifusum differs from this by its prostrate, slightly
2-edged stems, oblong, obtuse and mucronate sepals, oval-
oblong leaves, smaller flowers, fewer (about 15) stamens,
broader capsules, and shorter styles.—C. C. B.