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Mr. Cruckshanks, who presented seed of it to the Horti- 

 cultural Society, in whose Garden it flowered from July to 

 November last. . The plants of it that were placed in the 

 open ground suffered so much from the constant rain and 

 gloom, that they scarcely opened their flowers; but the in- 

 dividuals in the greenhouse were covered with a constant 

 succession of blossoms, producing a very pleasing effect 

 by their changeable hues, varying from pale pure blue to 

 white, with a deep yellow eye. 



Most Botanists refer Browallia to Scrophularinese ; an 

 error which Mr. Don has corrected in Jamieson's Journal, 

 without, however, noticing the remarkably large disk in 

 which the ovarium is placed: Neither does Professor 

 Graham, in his elaborate description of the species, advert 

 to this point of structure, which is, nevertheless, very re- 

 markable. We agree entirely with Dr. Graham in the 

 fact that there is a frequent tendency to the abortion of 

 one of the cells of the uppermost anthers ; such was the 

 case in a great many flowers that we examined. 



The following explanations will render the analysis of 

 the flower in the accompanying figure more intelligible : 



1. Is a view of the upper part of the tube of the corolla, the hmb 

 of which has been cut away ; it shews the position of the stamens^ 



2. Is one of the upper stamens, with one cell of the anther imperfect. 



3. Represents one of the lower stamens ; In this the filament is much 

 more slender than in the other. 4. Represents the style and great 

 dilated stigma. 5. Is a view of the ovarium, seated in its cup- 

 •shaped disk. 6. Is a view of a transverse section of the ovarium, 

 shewing the ovules and their placentation . 



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