by its angular calyx and divaricate habit. According to 

 Gartner the Capsule is five-celled at the base and one- 

 celled at the upper part, a structure, which some may 

 perhaps think sufficient to separate it from both these 

 genera. To avoid confusion we adhere to the established 

 name. 



The name of Vaccaria has been given it, it is said, from 

 its being a favourite food of Cows. In the Hortus Kewensis 

 it has the English name of Perfoliate Soap-wort, which we 

 think it right to change because another species is recorded 

 by the name of perfoliata in Willdenow's Enumeratio. 



There appears to be two varieties, one with smaller, the 

 other with larger flowers, of which our figure represents 

 the latter. 



From the brilliant colour of its flowers it is an ornamental 

 annual plant, requiring only to be sown in the spring where 

 it is intended to remain, and to be kept clear from weeds. 

 We do not know that any coloured figure of it has been 

 before given ; that in the Flora Graeca being as yet unpub- 

 lished. Native of Germany and France. 



Communicated by N. S. Hodson, Esq. from the Botanic 

 Garden, at Bury St. Edmunds. 



