rradually combine with others not yet observed. In the 

 formation of such groups we have always found Mr. Brown 

 peculiarly successful. The nuclei of his genera do not long 

 remain withotit attracting a due conglomeration of species, 

 until a natural and convenient assemblage of these has 

 taken place. The genera of many other authors seem to 

 be chosen by chance, and to be oftener drawn within the 

 circles of those already ^tablished, than to become them- 

 selves a receptacle for unobserved species. 



Biennial. Stem succulent, trailing, branched ; leaves 

 alternate, pinnatifid; lobes obtuse, slightly roughened, 

 edges minutely ciliate, lowermost apart from the rest, un- 

 evenly indented. Flower-stalks solitary, round, 1-flowered, 

 larger than the leaf. Calyx permanent, inferior 10-cleft ; 

 segments ovate acute ciliate, alternately upright and larger, 

 the rest reflexed. Corolla campanulate, limb 5-cleft, seg- 

 ments obtuse, notched at the end. Stamens far shorter 

 than the corolla ; filaments naked, inserted at the short tu- 

 bular base of the corolla ; anthers crescented. Nectary of 

 ten small purplish cavities with pubescent edges ranged 

 round the mouth' of the tube of the flower. Germen round- 

 oval : style upright : stigma trifid. Capsule 1-celled, with 

 two parietal fleshy placentae attached along the back, the 

 sides remaining detached and separate. Seeds naturally 

 two to each placenta. (Borrowed from Curtis's magaz. with 

 some alteration.) 



Drawn from the collection of Mr. Barclay, at Berry 

 Hill, Dorking ; by whom the species has been probably now 

 first introduced. 



