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124. POGONIA plicata. Lindl. gen. & sp. orch. p. 415. 
This little terrestrial Orchidaceous plant was found in soil 
from the Mauritius, and has flowered in the collection of His 
Grace the Duke of Northumberland at Sion. Its flowers are 
dull olive green, with a pale lilac labellum, emarginate at the 
point, rolled over the column, and strongly painted with green 
veins, five of which are parallel with each other and occupy 
the centre of the lip. The leaves, which are independent of 
the flowers, are plaited, dull purplish brown, and covered with 
soft bristles. 
125. PLEUROTHALLIS revifiora; folio carnoso obovato-oblongo apice 
rotundato subtus purpurascente, floribus sessilibus paucis fasciculatis 
pilosis, sepalis ovatis lateralibus connatis intis levibus, petalis ovatis 
apiculatis, labello carnoso obovato levi basi excavato pone apicem angu- 
lato et subdenticulato. 
A Mexican Orchidaceous plant imported by Messrs. Lod- 
diges, and very near P. aphthosa, with which it agrees in the 
colour of its flowers. The principal differences are the follow- 
ing; P. breviflora has, as its name implies, much shorter and 
broader flowers ; they are more hairy ; and they are destitute 
of the tubercles inside the sepals; the labellum is obovate, 
and angular, as if about to produce a tooth, on each side near 
the apex; finally, the leaves are obovate and stained with 
purple, instead of being oval and sharp pointed. 
126. PHACELIA jimbriata. Michaux Flora Boreali americana, vol. i. p. 
134. t. 16. 
In a recent visit to the private flower nursery of Messrs. 
Beck, Allen & Co., I remarked this pretty new hardy annual, 
cultivated under the name of Cosmanthus fimbriatus. With 
whom the latter originated I cannot discover, nor on what 
ground the present species is separated from Phacelia, unless 
it is because of the tube of the corolla being destitute of the 
scales found in other species of that genus. It is a native of 
various parts of North America; Michaux found it on the 
mountains of Carolina, Pursh near Harper’s Ferry on the 
Potowmac, and I have it from Kentucky. It forms a strag- 
gling plant with the habit of Nemophila atomaria; but it is 
prettier, on account of a curious glandular fringe that bor- 
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