Magazine (H. Coris, Tab. 178), it is unquestionably an 
error, as neither of the two species extends into the Russian 
dominions. The late Mr. Lee, who is the authority for 
this statement, probably received the seeds from some 
- voyager who, on returning from the Crimea, had collected 
them in the Greek islands. 
The true H. Coris was introduced into England as early 
as 1640, and is figured in Parkinson’s -Theatrum; for the 
specimen here figured I am indebted to G. C. Joad, Hsq., 
F.L.S., of Wimbledon Park, the possessor of one of the 
richest and most accurately named collections of herbaceous 
plants in Britain. 
Desor. Stem woody and rooting below, sending up very 
many erect or ascending cylindric subsimple glabrous 
slender branches six to eight inches high. Leaves about 
one inch long, in spreading subwhorled fascicles of four to 
six, spreading, narrowly linear, obtuse, with margins quite 
entire and revolute, sometimes to the midrib. Inflorescence 
terminal, of spreading whorled branches one to two inches 
long; bracts at the base of the branches linear, margins 
glandular. Flowers three to five. towards the ends of the 
branches, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, golden- 
yellow, on short slender eglandular pedicels. Sepals one- 
sixth to one-quarter of an inch long, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
fringed with black glands, erect in fruit. Petals three 
times as long as the sepals, obliquely oblong, eglandular. 
Stamens in three fascicles. Styles three. Capsule three- 
celled. Seeds linear-oblong.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, bract; 2, bud ; a; geste 4, bundle of stamens; 5, pistil; 6, transverse 
section of ovary; 7, fruiting branch; 8, petal of WV. empetrifolium ; 9, bud of the 
same :—all more or less enlurged. 
