fifure at their fummit, equal to flamens, longer than their 
ftyle. Capfule about the fize of a hazel nut, oblong, triquetral, 
bluntly angular, nodulofe ; /eeds numerous, roundifh, not 
much larger than thofe of muftard. 
In an effay on this natural order, publifhed in the 
Annals of Botany, we fo far yielded to eftablifhed feGtions, — 
as to continue Sisyrincaium diftiné&t from the prefent — 
genus; but we are now fully perfuaded, that there exifls too 
great a coincidence of charaéter and habit among their mutual — 
{pecies to require, or even admit of, fuch feparation, at leaft _ 
according to our notions of generic boundary. & 
The fubje& of this article is a native of the coaft of Cali- — 
fornia, from whence it was imported, according to a note in the — 
Bankfian Herbarium, fome years ago, by Mr. A. Menzies. 
A hardy greenhoufe plant, blooms in the autumn, and is 
propagated with eafe both by feed and parting the roots. 
In the third volume of the invaluable Sketches of Mr. 
Francis Bauer, we found a drawing of the whole vegetable, 
without name, but accompanied by a highly magnified dif- 
fe€tion of the parts of fruftification. It was here that we firft 
noticed the cohefion of the ftamens at their bafe, a circum- 
ftance that had entirely efcaped us, while examining the flowers 
with the naked eye, at Mr. Sarissury’s botanic garden, 
where our drawing was made. 
The prima facie likenefs between this vegetable, and the 
.SIsYRINCHIUM convolutum of RepouTr’s Lit1aceks is very 
remarkable ; but that has a round branched feape, and is faid 
to be a native of the Cape of Good Hope. G. : 
