genus. No soil has yet been found which suits it: it 
flowers abundantly, but will not produce seed. It is to 
be feared, that, unless a fresh supply is procured from 
N. W. America, the species will be lost to our Gardens. 
Stem ascending, about a foot high, or a foot and a half, 
sometimes even two feet, but this is unusual; very glaucous, 
as are the leaves, and all the other parts. Radical leaves 
erect, rising up the base of the stem, before they are changed 
into cauline ones. Bracte@ veiny, coriaceous ; the lower- 
most longer than the flowers. Flowers arranged in sub- 
sessile fascicles, which are axillary in the bractee, purple, 
bordered with lively blue. Calywes coriaceous, the sepals 
very much acuminate, growing larger after flowering. 
Corolla thrice as long as the calyx, quite smooth; the 
tube funnel-shaped, slightly arched ; the limb very oblique, 
with broad, rounded, or retuse segments. Sterile filament | 
shorter than the tube, slightly hairy, and hooked at the 
point. 
J. L. 
NoTE upon Teucrium orchideum, fol. 1255. 
Mr. Don has obligingly pointed out to us that this plant is evidently the 
T. heterophyllum of Cavanilles, icon. vol. 6. p. 56. t. 577.; a circumstance to 
which we had not adverted. It is not, however, the T. heterophyllum of 
L'Héritier, to which the name is usually applied. Teucrium orchideum will 
therefore continue to stand as a distinct species, with the synonym of Cava- 
nilles added to it. 
