cylindrical, about an inch long, obsoletely 8-furrowed, 

 tapered at the base. 



Closely akui to CEnothera purpurea ; which is however 

 truly distinct from it, and diiFers, by an upright rigid stem 

 that divides into short stiff branches at the upper part ; by 

 broader shorter leaves with a straight mucro ; by lanceolate 

 keeled subulately pointed calycine leaflets, almost even with 

 the corolla, which is of a red instead of a blue purple 

 colour; by cordately ovate anthers; by a style protruded 

 b^ond the faux and even with the stamens; by a stigma 

 sometimes entire, sometimes shallowly 4-lobed; lastly by 

 capsules which are ventricose and far shorter, with eight 

 deep longitudinal furrows and a rounded instead of a 

 tapered base. 



(Knothera Romanzavii is of very late introduction, 

 having been received at the Physic Garden, Chelsea, either 

 from Berlin or Moscow, the year before last; but is al- 

 ready to be met with in many collections in the vicinity of 

 London, where it is treated as a hardy annual. The draw- 

 ing was taken in Mr. Kent's garden, Clapton. Don MSS. 



We have to thank Mr. Don for the above article. 



