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STYLIDIUM Brunonianum 



Brown* s Style wort. 



GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. StylidiacejE. 



STYLIDIUM. Botanical Register, vol 1 . fol. 90 



§ Tolypangium. Capsulce ventricosce ovatce sphcericce aut oblunyce, 



nee lineares. Endl. 



S Brunonianum; glaucum, foliis radicalibus rosulatis lineari-spathulatis acutis 

 caulims verticillatis ; verticillis 2-4, racemo laxo subvertitillato, ovario 

 nudiusculo, calyce sequaliter 5-partito laciniis linearibus obtusiusculis, 

 corollse laciniis obovatis duabus minoribus, fauce glandulis capitatis co- 

 ronata, labello lineari acuminata basi tuberculato. 



S. Brunonianum. Benth. in Hugel enum. p. 72. DeCand. prodr. 7. 334. 



One of the prettiest of the singular Styleworts of Swan 

 lliver, remarkable for the fine bloom that overspreads all its 

 parts, and for the whorls of leaves which surround its flower- 

 stem. The accompanying figure, made last May in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society, represents it as it appears 

 in cultivation ; but in its wild state it is somewhat different 

 after the first year. It would seem that the flowering stem 

 perishes and leaves nothing behind except the tuft of radical 

 leaves and the living centre round which they are disposed. 

 The second season these leaves die, the central stem lengthen- 

 ing, clothing itself with small pointed scales, and when it 

 has grown an inch or so stopping to form another rosette 

 of ordinary leaves, from whose centre spring other flower- 

 stems ; the third and following years this is repeated, so that 



the winter state of the plant consists of a jointed scaly 



tem, each of whose joints is the result of one year's growth 



Nothing of this has yet been seen in gardens, but the first 

 stage of onward growth ought to be completed this spring. 



The ovary of this, and perhaps other species, is sometimes 

 glandular and sometimes quite smooth. 



