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feeds which ripened there the preceding year, but unfortunately 
from the latenefs of their flowering, and the very great injury 
the plants had fuftained from the Cobweb Mite. (Acarus 
teliarius) vulgarly called the red Spider, there feemed little 
profpea that the feed-veffels would arrive at perfection. | 
The feeds were fown by Mr. Fairsparan, in March, and 
the plants kept in the green-houfe till very late in the fummer, 
- when to accelerate their blotving, they were removed into 
the dry ftave: it is worthy of remark, that thefe plants, even 
late in the autumn, fhew no figns of bloffoming, but the flowers 
at length come forth with almoft unexampled rapidity, and the 
feed-veffels are formed as quickly, fo that if the flowers were 
not very numerous, their bloffoming period would be of very 
fhort duration ; future experience may perhaps point out the 
means of making the plant blow earlier: in Spain, the blof- 
foms appeared later than here, Monf. Cavanrixe obferved | 
them in the Royal Garden, in November and December, moft: 
probably in fhe open ground, as no mention is made of the 
plants having been preferved from the weather. 
It was not till long after our defcription was taken, that we 
had an oportunity of feeing Monf. Cavanitye’s moft accu- _ 
rate and elegant work, above quoted, in which this plant is. 
~firft figured and deferibed ; we have {clefted the moft effential 
parts of his generic charafter, and: adopted his fpecific defcrip- 
tion: there is one point, however, in which we differ from 
him; the part which he regards as the fifth Petal, we are in- 
_ clined to confider rather as that indefcribable fomething; called 
by Linn aus the Ne@ary, it is indeed of little moment whether 
we call it a Petal ora Neétary, but there are feveral reafons 
why, ftriétly fpeaking, we cannot regard it as a Petal: in ge- 
neral the number. of Petals correfpond with the number of : 
the leaves of the Calyx, thofe of the latter are four ; the bafe 
of this Ne@ary originates deeper than the claws of the Petals, 
fpringing in fa@ fromthe fame part as the Filament, its ftruc-~ 
ture, efpecially the lower part of it, ‘is evidently different from 
that of the Petals, correfponding indeed as nearly as” poffible Oe 
_ with that of the bafe of the filament.—Vid. Drscer. oe 
_ Monf. Cavaniuxe was induced sto call this plant Lopexia, 
in compliment to Tu. Lopez, a Spaniard*. oa: 
_ . * In honorem Licent. Taoms Lopez, Burgenfis, qui aliquot annos Regii 
Senatoris munere funétus in America, Caroto V. imperante, In patriam Te — 
verfus breviariam hiftoriz natoralis novi orbis feripfit fab. titulo de tribus eles” 
mentis Sacre, aqua, et terra; MS, apud eundem Mugnozium. a 
