than the internodes and remotely fubimbricate ; involucre one, 
rarely two-flowered, 2—3-valved, valves 3——4 inches long, 
herbaceous, oblong-lanceolate, convolutely conduplicate, inner 
valve longer than the outer; peduncle as long or longer than 
the involucre, 3—4 times longer than germen; tube fhort, 
hollow, fuburceolate ; outer fegments divaricately patent, nearly 
rotate and fomewhat the fhorteft, their ungues~ beardlels, 
lancealate-oblong, fubconvolute-concave, firm, traverfed by 
a flightly elevated ridge or keel, which is continued to about 
the middle of the laminz, than which they are twice langer, 
round-ovate, entire, and but little recurved; inner fegments 
oblanceolate, ereét-patent, emarginate, unguiculately narrowed 
and convolute downwards ; ftyle thick trigonal, length of the 
tube; ftigmas recurved-patent, nearly the length of the outer 
fegments, rather broader than the upper part of their ungues, 
{pathulate-oblong, keeled-convex, with the fide-edges but 
flightly revolute; inner lip round-ovate, bipartite, fegments 
flightly divergent, fubundulate, crenulately gnawn; outer lip 
nearly abfolete, truncate, notched; germen an oblang, ob- 
tufely trigonal fhaft, twice fhorter than the coralla; filaments 
about the length of the anthers, Capfule oblong-triquetral, 
2—g3 times fhorter than peduncle; feeds vertical, ablong, 
truncately flat at both ends from mutual preffure, upper and 
lower ones generally angled. Flowers expand in May, and 
have a flight {mell of coriander-feed, 
A native of Spain, growing, according to Cuusius, in the 
country about Valladolid, to Quer (who by the bye {peaks of 
a plant with white outer laming) in the green-oak woods of 
both the Caftiles; Disrontaines tells us he found it in 
Algiers; but it remains to be afcertained if he means the pre- 
cife fpecies we are now deferibing, It is perfeétly hardy and 
propagates rapidly by offsets, of which it produces abyndance; 
cultivated here in 1633, by GerarpeE. } = 
The beft roots are faid to be thofe annually imported by 
the feedfien from Holland, There are many varieties of it, 
but not. fo many as ufually fuppofed; on this head we fha'l 
however defer our obfervatians till we have an opportunity OF 
further confirmation ; we fufpe€t many to be hybrids between 
xipbioides, lufitanica, juncea, our prefent plant, and perhaps 
alfo alata, and probably yet more perfeélly difting {pecies, Gy 
