a quality in which our present species is by no means defi- 
cient. It is, however, at present but little known in our 
gardens. It is a native of the South of France and also of 
Tauria, from which latter country it has been introduced 
into the Edinburgh Botanic Garden through the liberality 
of Dr. Fiscuer. It flowers in the open border in June, and 
may be increased by parting its roots as well as by seeds. 
«* Stems (a foot and a half high) many from the crown 
of the root, ascending, much branched, panicled above, 
glabrous, round, marked with two opposite, obscure ridges, 
alternating in the inner nodes. Leaves (nine lines long, 
three lines broad,) decussating, sessile, elliptico-linear, 
glaucous, glabrous, spreading wide, channelled in the mid- 
dle, and having a few faint, lateral veins, entire and slightly 
revolute in the edge, dotted with minute, pellucid points. 
Panicle \arge, terminal ; peduncles three-flowered, the lateral 
flowers opposite, and arising from the axils of diminished 
leaves. Calyx segments ovate, blunt, marked with pellucid 
streaks, frmged with black glands. Corolla (one inch 
across when expanded) much contorted ; petals spreading, 
clawed, obovate, unequal, nerved, pellucido-punctate, sub- 
serrate, ciliated with black glands ; claws longer than the 
calyx. Stamens erect ; filaments much shorter than the 
corolla, yellow, irregularly connate at the base ; anthers 
incumbent, greenish yellow. Stigmata small, of many mi- 
nute red points. Styles three, diverging, yellow. Germen 
ovate, three-lobed, reddish, striated, afterwards of deeper 
red, three-celled. Ovules oblong, very numerous, attached 
to the central receptacle. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Calyx and young Fruit: magnified. 
