inclining to bell-shaped, glanduloso-pubescent, cut into 
five deep, acute, erect segments. - Corolla more than twice 
the length-of the whole calyx: the tube slender, enlarged 
upwards, yellowish-brown : Limb spreading horizontally, 
small, pale lilac-purple, its breadth not equalling one third 
of the length of the tube; the segments oval. Stamens 
five, inserted at unequal heights within the mouth of the 
tube: Filaments short: Anther rounded. Germen obo- 
vate, with three furrows. Style filiform ; Stigma three- 
cleft. Capsules ripen abundantly, and are lodged within 
the enlarged husky, persistent calyces, obovate, three-lobed, 
three-celled, bursting longitudinally from the summit in 
the centre of these lobes into three obcordate, deeply groov- 
ed valves, which leave the axis or. central three-winged re- 
ceptacle free, to the flat sides of which are attached three 
seeds, one to each cell. These are oval, fixed by the middle, 
filled with a horny albumen, which encloses a cylindrical 
embryo, whose radicle is inferior. _ 
This plant seems to have been first discovered by Mr. 
Norraxz, near the banks of the Missouri river, about the 
confluence of the Shian river. Dr. Ricuarpson and Mr. 
Drummonp found it abundantly further North, to the East- 
ward of the Rocky Mountains, particularly plentiful about 
Carlton House and Cumberland House Forts: and Mr. Dove- 
Las and Dr. Scouter on dry sandy banks of the Columbia; 
and the former traveller observes, that it extends over a 
immense tract of country from Menzies Island in the Colum- 
bia, to Lake Winipeg, East of the Rocky Mountains, @ 
distance of sixteen hundred miles, growing upon the banks 
of streams ; and flowers from May to July. In our garden 
it is a hardy annual, flowering nearly the whole summer. 
Introduced by Mr. Doveuas to the garden of the Hortt 
cultural Society. 
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Fig. 1. Single Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4, Capsule within the 
Calyx. 5. Capsule in the act of bursting. 6. Seed with its Hilum. 7 
Section of a Capsule from which the Se . Section of ? 
and Te e Seeds are removed. 8 
