genus is from a note appended to its technical character in 

 Mr. Brown's Prodromus. 



" The corolla of the species belonging to Europe, Asia, 

 and Africa, is either white or blue ; but in some from Ame- 

 rica red. Its tube, which in the greater part of the species 

 is cloven the whole way, is sometimes only divided as far 

 as the middle, and in some few (not distinguished from the 

 rest by any other point of mutual concurrence) quite entire. 

 Its limb is generally two-lipped with a smaller (seldom 

 larger) upper lip, sometimes only one-lipped, seldom ap- 

 proaching to a completely regular form. The stamens, 

 which are usually detached from the corolla, are sometimes 

 attached to it as far as the middle of the tube : the filaments 

 are either quite apart or conjoined above: the anthers are 

 either all bearded, or only the three uppermost, and some- 

 times none, the two lower ones are now and then mucronate 

 (special pointed). One species is dioicous. Some of the 

 South African suifrutescent ones have a capsule more than 

 half superior; and the only herbaceous one from that 

 quarter has a cylindrical capsule divided its whole length 

 into two valves, notwithstanding its being almost com- 

 pletely inferior. Some of the New Holland ones have the 

 top of the peduncle sloped in such way, that the receptacle 

 of the seed seems as if it originated at the middle of one 

 side." (From the Latin). 



Lobelia had been removed by M. de Jussieu (in the tract 

 above quoted) from Campanulacece, and combined with 

 Goodenoviie of Mr. Brown into an order under the title 

 Lobeliacece. The affinities upon which this exclusion and 

 recombination proceed, are scrutinized by Mr. Brown with 

 great candour and learning in his General Remarks on 

 the Botany of Terra Australis, where, to our conviction at 

 least, they are shown to have been assumed in part from un- 

 substantial and in part misconstrued appearances, while 

 genuine relations have been overlooked. 



If Lobelia is to be removed from its former station, it 

 must be to found a distinct order, certainly not to be amal- 

 gamated with Goodenovice. We regret that we have not 

 room even for an abridgment of Mr. Brown's remarks. 



