“ It was at first placed in the stove, but the temperature 
being found too high for it, it was afterwards removed to an 
open frame, and remained exposed night and day throughout 
the summer. | 
“I may mention a peculiarity for which this plant is 
remarkable, with which you are no doubt familiar; like the 
Mimulus, the divided stigma collapses on the slightest touch. 
“‘ The full grown seed-pods contain about fifteen rough 
oval flattened black seeds.” : 
The curved downy figure, in outline, in the back-ground 
of iis annexed plate, represents one of the hard horned seed- 
vessels, 
