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Limnantues Dovetasi. Mr. Dovenas’ 
LIMNANTHES. 
TERRE KEE EEE ERK KEE REK 
Class and Order. 
Decanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Limnantuez. Br. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 5-partitus. Petala5. Stamina 10. Nucula 5.— 
Herba annua, carnosa, glaberrima ( Californie) ; floribus 
conspicuis. 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
Limnantues * Douglasii. 
Limnantues Douglasii. Br. in Lond. et Ed. Phil. Mag. 
July, 1833. Benth. in Hort. Trans. v. 1. N. 8. p. 409. 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1673. 
A very pretty hardy annual, with fragrant flowers, dis- 
covered by the Naturalist whose name it bears in California, 
whence he sent both specimens and seeds to the Horticul- 
tural Society. It is not only a new Genus, but what gives 
additional interest is, that Mr. Brown has made it the type 
of a new Order, which, including FLoerKea, another annual, 
glabrous, and succulent North American plant, he has _ 
called Limyanrurm, and placed near Grraniacez. The 
subject of our present plate flowers in June and July. | 
_Descr. Plant glabrous; the stems much branched, espe- 
cially near the base, decumbent, eight to ten inches long, 
rounded. Leaves alternate, on long petioles, pinnated with 
one to three pairs of oblong or lanceolate leaflets, ogi 
peceneemere 
foreseen 
_* Avwm, a lake, and avboc, a flower. The plant is believed to inhabit the 
sides of watery places, 
