Our drawing was made in May last, from a sample in 

 Lady Banks's garden at Springrove ; the only place, we be- 

 lieve, where the live plant is to be found in this country. 

 We had no opportunity of inspecting the plant ourselves, 

 and subjoin a description by M. de Lamarck. 



Stem a foot and a half high, slender, cylindrical, leafy, 

 smooth at the lower part, furred at the upper, where it has 

 also some short branchlets. Leaves alternate, sessile, li- 

 nearly lanceolate, quite entire, smooth, and very like those 

 of the Common Salsify. Spike long, loose ; flowers of a 

 whitish colour, largish, stalked, and looking as if only one- 

 lipped, the upper lip being foreshortened and almost re- 

 duced to none, and the side segments being short, while the 

 lower lip is large, flat, spatulate, and slighly fringed, but 

 not bearded. 



