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COLLINSIA grandiflora. 
Large-flowered Collinsia. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINEA. 
COLLINSIA. Supra, fol. 1082. 
C. grandiflora; caule erecto ramoso, pedunculis verticillatis floribus brevi- 
oribus, corolle laciniis dilatatis retusis, calyce glabro corolla dupló 
breviore. 
C. grandiflora. Supra, fol. 1082 in textu, sine charactere. 
Caulis erectus, ramosus, palmaris pedalisve, pubescens. Folia inferiora 
spatulata, superiora oblongo-linearia, glaberrima, nunc integerrima, nunc 
denticulata. Flores verticillati, numerosi, speciosissimi. Pedunculi glabri, 
Jiliformes, floribus duplà brevioribus. Calyx glaber, laciniis acuminatissimis, 
quasi aristatis, ph dupld brevioribus. Corolla tubo et labio superiore 
pallidê purpureis, inferiore intense cyaneo, laciniis dilatatis, crenulato-crispis, 
retusis, inferiore mediá minutá. Obs. in icone, errore pictoris, margo corolla 
integer pro crenulato-crispo malé supponitur. 
One of the most beautiful hardy annuals with which we 
are acquainted, covering the ground with a carpet, as it 
were, of blue, and purple, and white, during the months of 
June and July. ges 
A native of the dry banks of the Columbia river, at the 
distance of an hundred miles and more from the ocean, 
in which situations its seeds were gathered by Mr. Douglas, 
and transmitted to the Horticultural Society, in whose 
garden our drawing was made in June last, when 1t 
flowered for the first time. 
We learn from the enterprising traveller to whom we 
are indebted for this and a multitude of equally important 
plants, and whose safe return to England, after surmount- 
ing perils and fatigue of no common kind, we are truly 
