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1. Nicotiana rustica. Linn. 



1. Salpiglossis ? prostrata; sparsim glanduloso-puberula, caule prostrato ramoso, foliis 

 oblongo-spathulatis integris, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris folio multoties brevioribus. 



Radix csespitosa, perennis ? Caules prostrati, teretes, filiformes, ramos oppositos alternosve subsimplices 

 utrinque emittentes, glanduloso-pulveruli. Folia anguste oblonga, obtusa, basi longe attcnuata, glandulosa, 

 puberula, subenervia, parva, vix semiunciam longa. Pedimculi axillares, solitarii, uniflori, breves, semilineam 

 longi. Calyx puberulus, quinquefidus, siuubus latis ; lacinise elongate, foliacece, lineari-oblongse, obtusse : 

 tubus campanulatus, laciniis duplo brevior, e sepalis dorso viridibus margine membranaceis constans. Corolla 

 purpurascens, tenera, marcescens, puberula, calycem paullum superans, infuDdibuliformis, irregulariter quin- 

 queloba. Stamina quatuor, fertilia, glabra, duo longiora, cum quinto interdum fertili soepiusve sterili: 

 Anthera cordato-subrotundse, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Stylus glaber, versus apicem crassior; Stigma 

 subpeltatum, planiusculum, medio linea exaratura. Capsula ovata, biloeularis, bivalvis, valvis apice subbi- 

 fidis, dissepimentum a valvis demum liberum utrinque placentiferum : placenta planiuscula. Semina minuta, 

 numerosa, subrotunda, scrobiculata. Albumen carnosum. Embryo teres, lsevitcr curvatus, albus, longitudine 

 fere seminis, centralis; radicula ad hilum spectans: cotyledones marginibus ad erabryonis fiexuram, ideoque 

 accumbentes. 



This certainly belongs to the same genus as S. linearis and «S. integrifolia. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3113; but 

 they differ from the other of the Chilian species by the foliaceous lobes of the calyx, thereby approaching 

 Petunia and Nierembergia: indeed, the latter of these two species is Nierembergia phamicea of Don, while 

 the former appears to be N. intermedia, Graham, in Ed. N. Phil. Journ. n. 27. p. 175. From Nierembergia, 

 even although it be united with Petunia, as Don proposes, these plants appear distinct by the inflated tube 

 of the corolla, which has scarcely any limb. Lindernia Montividensis, Spreng. Syst. v. 2. p. 769, of which 

 Chamisso and Schlechtendal remark, (Linnaia, v. 3. p. 24,) " planta e Solanearum ordine, Nierembergia 

 affinis," is scarcely distinguishable from the present individual. 



- Ord. XXXII. SCROPHULARINEJE. Juss. 



1. Scoparia dulcis. Linn. 



1. Linaria Canadensis. Spr. — Antirrhinum Canadense. Linn. 



1. Scrophularia Californica; caule acutangulo glabro parte florifero glanduloso-pubescente, 

 foliis oblongo-triangularibus acutis basi cordatis duplicato-serratis supra glabris subtus parce 

 glanduloso-pubescentibus penninerviis, tbyrso aphyllo, laciniis calycinis ovatis acutis mucro- 

 natis margine angustissime membranaceis, stamine quinto rudimentoso, capsula ovoideo- 

 conica. — Cham, et Schlecht. in Linncea, v. 2. p. 585. 



As remarked by Chamisso and Schlechtendal, this species approaches very closely to the European S. 

 nodosa: according to these authors the affinity is less with S. Marilandica, although to us it appears 

 extremely allied to that species. From iS, nodosa, the shape of the calycine segments and of the capsule 

 will readily distinguish it. Our specimens have no root. 



1. Mimulus guttatus; glabriusculus, caule quadrangulari basi radicante, foliis inferionbus 

 petiolatis ovato-oblongis obtusis superioribus subsessilibus subrotundo-ovatis basi subcordatis 

 plurinerviis inEequaliter dentatis, pedunculis pubescentibus bractea sessili longioribus, calyce 

 campanulato pubescente corollaque guttatim maculatis. De Cand. Cat. Hort. Monsp. p. 127. 

 — M. luteus. Bot. Mag. t. 1501. 



Although undoubtedly a distinct species from the Chilian M. luteus, it is by no means easy to point out a 

 constant distinctive character. In M. guttatus the size of the flowers is usually much smaller, the peduncles 

 are pubescent and shorter; but we do not find them so short as to verify the assertion that tbey are shorter 



