ters of 4 or 5 together. Clusters solitary, or 2 or 3 together,
in the axil of each leaf of the lateral branches, and distinct.
Sepals oblong, obtuse, and generally tipped by a strong
hair. Petals and stamens rising from a fleshy disk, the
former strongly resembling the filaments of the stamens,
but alternate with them, and apparently in an exterior
whorl, and also alternate with the sepals. Anthers yellow,
tipped with scarlet. Germen oblong, narrowed above, and
tipped by a very short style, and two slightly divergent
stigmas.
H . glabra, of which t. 206 is a characteristic figure, differs
from this by its much longer leaves, which are usually glabrous,
and its coalescing clusters of flowers, which make
the lateral branches present the appearance of leafy irregular
spikes. Its sepals are more acute, its stigmas smaller
and less divergent, and its colour paler and yellowish green.
It is much to be feared that this plant is now lost from
England, since it has not been observed for many years in
either of its stations near London, Finchley and Colney
Hatch, nor in Suffolk ; but it is frequent in Jersey and
Guernsey. The plant of the Cornish stations is H. ciliata.
Through the kindness of the Rev. T. Gisborne I am possessed
of a specimen, marked by Mr. Dickson as H. hirsuta,
and gathered at Finchley Common in 1795 ; but it is not
that plant, being exactly H. glabra, thus throwing great
doubt upon the claim of H. hirsuta to be regarded as a native
of England.—C. C. B.