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Celsia Cretica. Great-Flowered 

 Celsia. 



Oafs and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA AnGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat 5-partitus. Cor. rotata. FUamenta barbata. Cap/. 2- 

 locularis. 



Specific Cbaracler and Synonyms. 



CELSIA cretica foliis inferioribus finuatis petiolatis, fuperi- 

 oribus cordatis amplexicaulibus, filamentis inferiori- 

 bus laevibus. So/under MSS. 



CELSIA cretica. Linn. Suppl. 281. Syft. Veg. 469. Fab!. 

 Symb. 3. p. 80. Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 280. Reich. 3. 

 151. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 344. Desfont. At!. 2. />. 57. 

 Mzr/. Mi!!. Diet. 



The figure in Miller's Icones (PI. 273) generally quoted 

 as a fynonym, does not appear to belong to this plant ; Co that 

 we do not know that any reprefentation of it has been before 

 given. 



The fyftematic arrangement of this pla-nt has hitherto been 

 at variance with natural affinity ; if more attention had been 

 paid to the latter, it would hardly have been diftinguifbed from 

 Verbascum, feveral fpecies of which have the hairy filaments 

 of unequal length and arranged in a fimilar manner. In one, 

 of which we intend foon to give a figure, the upper flamens 

 exactly refemble thofe of Celsia cretica, but are three in 

 number inftead of two : fo that here are two plants minutely 

 correfponding, both in habit and fructification, excepting that 

 one of them has only four flamens the other five, from which 

 circumftance one is joined to Celfia and arranged in the 



fourteenth 



