it, have returned within the pale of Ca: 



occupy a distinct 



deed 



NutA ; where, 



ace, to which 



their former generic character is prefixed as a sectional 

 phrase: an arrangement which we confess in this instance 



app 



to us to be the more convenient and desirable of 



the two, and p 



M 



Desfont 



from Tour ne f( 



fi 



has ascertained the svnonvms 

 rence to the Herbarium of that 



author. He has also dropped an opinion that our pi 



be a variety of hyb 



ly, and without sug- 



a 



f 



Besting a reason why he thinks so, or adducing 



fact of its beiuir so. When the corolla is closed, five 



of the divisions of the 



*»•«, .-x- .w- .^ -. 



flat folds are formed bv 



limb 



w 



h extend themselves in 



o 



f 



manv 



Wings or angles, like the feathers of an arrow; a circuni- 



It 



stance that lias suggested the specific name. 



A hardy annual, but not common in our collections, 

 requires no other care, after being sown in the spring, than 

 that of seeing that the plants are parted by sufficient dis- 

 tances by thinning them out, and that weeds are kept 

 down. Cultivated by Ray before Ws6. Native of Tur- 

 key. 



The drawing was taken from the extensive nursery of 



'Messrs. Whitley, Bfitmes, and Milne, Kings Road, Par- 

 son's Green, Fulham, in July last. 



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a The stamens after they have parted with the pollen, showing the 

 coronal form into which the filaments converge permanently at their dilated 

 bases, and the manner in which they diverge beyond, b A 

 with its valve-like dilated base, c the pistil, d The 



persistent calyx and withered corolla. 



separate stamen 



capsule, crowned by a 









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