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P L A T E DLL
L O P E Z I A CORONATA.
Coronet-flowering Lopezia.
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C L A S S L ORDER 1.
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. One Chive. One Pointai.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
C A I T X 4-phyllas. Corolla 5-petala, inaequalii.
Capsula 4-locularis, 4-valvis, polysperma
EMPALEMENT 4-leaved. Blossom 5-petaled, unequal.
Capsule 4-celled, 4-valved, many
seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
LofEZJA ramis longis, simplicibus, adscendentibus:
foliis sub-ovatis, acutis, dentatis,
lucidis : petiolis decurrentibus : floribus ax->
illaribus, in umbellis terminalibus.
LOPEZIA with long, simple, ascending branches.
Leaves nearly ovate, pointed, toothed, and
shining, with decurrent footstalks. Flowers
growing from the axillae of the leaves, and
terminate the branches in umbels.
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. The chives and poinfal, with the lower petal magnified.
3. The capsule cut transversely.
4. A seed.
THE Lopezia coronata is a hardy little annual, of recent introduction, and a lively addition to this
short genus, which at present contains but two species besides the one now figured. We have seen
them all three in fine bloom in several collections. Our figure represents a branch from a plaiit in the
conservatory of the Countess de Vandes, where we obsen-ed the side petals of many of the flowers of
a pure white at the ends, which gave them a veiy singular and different appearance from plants of the
same description we have seen elsewhere : and Mr. Fordyce the botanic gardener informs me it wis
always the chaiacter of his plant, after it had been some time in flower, for the large petals to acquirea
white appearance, as if bleached, previous to their going out of bloom. We have therefore left one flower
m that stale m our specimen, to delineate the variation incidental to the plant from which our fi-niie
was taken.