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* LOPEZIA lineata. 
Line-leaved Lopezia. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRACEZ. 
LOPEZIA. Cav. Calycis limbus 4-partitus deciduus. Petala 4 irre- 
gularia. Stamina 2, uno fertili antherifero, altero opposito sterili, petali- 
formi, a petalis veris seepiús diseolore. Stigma capitatum. Capsula nuda, 
subglobosa, 4-locularis, apice tantúm loculicido-4-valvis; valvis placentze cen- 
trali dissepimentis adnatis. Semina plurima, minima. Herbee erecta, aut 
suffrutices. Folia dentata, alterna, sæpiùs. opposita. Racemi caulem ramosque 
terminantes. Flores pedicellati, purpurei. DC. prodr. 3. 62. 
L. lineata ; frutescens, caule petiolisque hirsutis, foliis breviter petiolatis e 
basi rotundatá ovatis acutis crenato-serrulatis utrinque pubescentibus, 
venis approximatis costatis superné lineatis, pedunculis glabris, glandulá 
in petalorum superiorum (angustiorum) ungue basi rotundatá solitariâ. 
Zuccarini Plantarum Novarum minüs v. Cognitarum fasciculus 2. p. 31. 
no. 13. Benth. Plant. Hartweg. p. 37. no. 287. 
A pretty soft-wooded greenhouse shrub, growing about 
three feet high, and flowering freely during the latter part of 
autumn and winter. 
Itis easily increased by seeds, grows rapidly in any good 
garden soil, and might be treated as a half-hardy annual, but 
in that case it must be brought forward early in the 
spring; otherwise flowering so very late it is destroyed by the 
frost before its blossoms unfold. 
It is chiefly valuable in the months of January and 
February when it is covered by little insect-like red flowers, 
and is at that time so different in appearance from other 
plants of the season, that it becomes a doubly welcome acqui- 
sition. 
* So called by Cavanilles after the Licentiate Thomas Lopez, an obscure 
Spanish naturalist. 
