A hardy annual, more remarkable as a Botanical curi- 
osity than as an ornamental plant; but forming an addition 
to a genus of which one species only was previously 
known. Flowers in May and June, and ripens its seed in 
abundance. 
This is distinguished from Collinsia verna by its smaller 
flowers, which appear singly in the axille of the leaves, 
not in many-flowered whorls, and by the acuteness of the 
segments of the corolla. A third species discovered in the 
same country by Mr. Douglas, and bearing large bright 
blue flowers (C. grandiflora nob.) will soon be published in 
the present work. 
Stem ascending or erect, branched, round, slightly 
pubescent. Leaves ovate-oblong, obtuse, sub-sessile, 
the radical leaves being stalked, either entire or 
toothed, opposite or whorled, pubescent on each side, 
generally purple beneath. lowers axillary, appearing 
from nearly the earliest leaves, solitary, with filiform 
peduncles, which are shorter than the leaves, and, when in 
fruit, nodding. Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, equal, little 
shorter than the corolla, (in this respect the magnified 
figure of the flower is inaccurate), glandular-pubescent, 
with ovate acute segments. Corolla but little longer than 
the calyx, 2-lipped; the upper lip erect, bifid; the lower 
lip 3-parted, its lateral segments parallel, covering by their 
inner margin the middle segment, which is cucullate, and 
encloses the anthers; tube gibbous at the back. Stamens 
didynamous, with a rudiment of a fifth stamen, declinate, 
lying in the bosom of the lower segment of the corolla. 
Filaments smooth. Anthers smooth, with nearly parallel 
cells. Ovarium ovate, 2-celled, few-seeded, with a fleshy 
placenta, and a thin pericarpium. Ovula two in each cell, 
peltate. Style subulate, the length of the stamens. Stigma 
very small, two-lobed, equal. Capsule membranous, covered 
by the calyx, 4-seeded, with a loose dissepiment, half 
4-valved. Seeds bright brown, shining, depressed, with 
a large concave hilum ; testa coriaceous; albumen corneous; 
embryo green, transverse, with flat cotyledons the length 
of the rounded radicle. 
The following is Mr. Nuttall’s account of his discovery 
of his Collinsia verna. 
