Tas. 4927. 
COLLINSIA verna. 
Vernal Collinsia. 
Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARINEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx profunde 5-fidus, campanulatus. . Corolle declinatee, tubus 
postice basi gibbus, mdi labium superius bifidum lobis erecto-replicatis, inferius 
lobo medio complicato genitalia includente, lateralibus patentibus. Stamina de- 
clinata, antherarum loculis apice confluentibus, staminis quinti rudimentum breve. 
Stylus apice minute subcapitato-stigmatosus. Capsula ovata vel globosa, septi- 
cide bivalvis, valvulis membranaceis bifidis. Semina ovoidea, majuscula, dorso 
convexa, facie concava, festa leviuscula.—Herbe annue, Boreali- Americana, 
erecta, decumbentes vel laxe ramose. Folia opposita, rarius ternatim verticillata. 
Flores in avillis foliorum floralium oppositorum falso verticillati, cymarum nempe 
pedunculus communis suénullus, pedicelli uniflori ebracteolati elongati vel rarius 
brevissimi, singuli bractea parva vel foliacea suffulti. Corolla cerulea, violacea 
vel subrosea ; labio superiore pallido vel albo. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. 
CoLiinsia verna; glabra vel superne subpuberula, foliis infimis cordato-orbicu- 
laribus sublonge petiolatis, caulinis ovatis sessilibus crenato-serratis, su- 
premis bractewformibus quaternatim verticillatis linearibus, pedicellis folio 
longioribus, calycis laciniis lato-lanceolatis ciliatis, corolle labio superiore 
albo profunde bifido lobis divergentibus inferiore czeruleo. 
Couiinsta verna. Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Philad. v.1.p.190.f.1. Gen. of N. 
Am. Plants, v. 2. p.46. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v.10. p. 318 (ened. 
Syn. of Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. v. 3. t. 220). Gray, Bot. of N. U. States, 
p. 297. 
ANTIRRHINUM tenellum. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. v. 2. p. 421. 
This lovely annual is quite new to our gardens,* and is no 
less interesting from the beauty of its flowers (the upper lip pure 
white, the lower a rich azure-blue) than from its being the spe-— 
cies on which the excellent Nuttall founded the genus: and it 
is from Mr. Nuttall himself that we received the plants from 
which our drawing is made, accompanied by the following note : 
—“T send you young plants of Collinsia verna. This, like the 
rest of the genus, is an annual, but of singular beauty, and has 
* The Collinsia verna of Don, in Sweet’s ‘Flower Garden,’ vol. iii. tab. 220, 
is clearly the C. grandiflora, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. t. 1107), from Oregon. 
JULY Ist, 1856. 
