Concerning this, however, we have no information from 
Mr. Douglas, by whom it was sent to the Horticultural So- 
ciety from California. It flowers in the autumn, and ripens 
seeds in tolerable plenty. 
What gives it its chief interest is its remarkable structure, 
and the station it occupies in the natural system of plants. 
Dr. Brown, who first examined it, considers it to form, along 
with Flórkea, an obscure North American plant, a new 
Natural Order which he calls Limnanthee, and stations near 
Geraniacee and their allies. In this view we have not hesi- 
tated to concur, although, as far as regards Flörkea, we had 
expressed a different opinion in the account we gave of that 
genus in Dr. Hoóker's Journal of Botany. Without over- 
looking its manifest relation to Geraniacee, we had consi-. 
dered Flórkea to be upon the whole more nearly related to 
Sanguisorbee than to any other plants. But at that time 
Limnanthes was unknown, and we had nothing to connect 
Flürkea more with one Natural Order than another. Now 
that Limnanthes has been discovered, it becomes obvious 
that Flörkea, which is closely allied to it in structure, 
is more nearly akin to Geraniacee than to Sanguisorbee, 
and that it must constitute a new form in the groupe of 
Gynobasic Natural Orders. But while we admit this, it is 
necessary to add that we do not therefore give up the affi- 
nity of Flörkea to Sanguisorbee ; on the contrary, we con- 
sider it one of the links by which the gynobasic and poly- 
carpous groupes of Dicotyledonous plants are connected. 
In the Analysis of the parts represented in the plate, 1. is the ovary, Sul” 
rounded by the 10 stamens, the sepals and petals being cut away ; 2. a stamen, 
with the projection at its base, a. ; 3. the ripe fruit enclosed in the calyx; 4+ 
a nucule separate; and 5. the same cut through horizontally, to shew the coty- 
ledons of the embryo. 
