plant is young. Flowers in terminal corymbs, buds nod- 
ding, when fully expanded fronting outwards, large; pedi- 
cels round. Calyx persisting, ovate as well as the stem, 
branches and pedicels villous, and slightly viscid, five-cleft, 
segments ovate, pointed, spreading a little while the corolla 
is fully expanded. Corolla slightly marcescent, but soon — 
after, falling ; perfume faint, but disagreeable ; tubular, tube 
nearly as long as the calyx, yellow, and somewhat plaited 
in its upper half, colourless below; limb of five, broad, — 
obovate, spreading segments, minutely crenated, pale pur- 
ple marked with deeper veins, darker at its base, where, on | 
the outside, it is very slightly pubescent. Stamens five, 
included ; filaments connivent, slender, flattened, awl- 
shaped, contracted at the base, inserted into the apices of 
small, connivent, hairy valves, which arise within the throat 
of the corolla, siete with the segments of the limb ; 
anthers sagittate, curved inwards, large, white; pollen 
white. Germen small, ovate ; style filiform, equal in length 
to the filaments ; stigma in most of the flowers four-cleft, 
revolute, pubescent. 
Seeds gathered by Dr. Richarpson in 1825, from plants 
growing in d sandy soil, on Great Bear Lake, in 66 
egrees North latitude, and received from him in this 
prom ~ oa =e — flowered in a cold frame at 
e Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, in the beginning of 
Oetiiber, 1827. : rhs te net rama 
I have a double reason for dedicating this species to our 
excellent and indefatigable countryman. It is the first 
which has flowered among the plants raised from seeds re- 
ceived from him last year, and while I was in the act of 
writing the description, I received information of his having © 
arrived in Edinburgh from the last successful survey of the 
shores of the Arctic Sea. Granam. 
_ 1 forbear saying any thing further respecting this beau- 
tiful and interestin laut a present, except that it comes 
very near to the P. humile of Pattas; that Mr. Menzies 
found it during his celebrated voyage with Capt. Van- 
COUVER, upon the North-west coast of America ; and, that I 
believe my var. nana of P. ceruleum*, gathered by Capt. 
Sazine in Spitzbergen, isgnot distinct. There are nume- 
— Specimens in Dr. Ricnarpson’s and Mr. Drummonp’s 
collections, whieh will at a future time enable me to offer . 
some remarks upon the species. ese : 
* In Linnean Transactions, Vol. XIV. p. 371. | 
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Fig. ¥. Corolla, 2, Stamen, 3, Pistil. 4. Stigma, with four Rays.—Magnifed: 
