secund. Calyx almost cylindrical, five toothed, the inner- 
most tooth the smallest, green, reddish at the point, hairy. 
Corolla about twice the length of the calyx ; tube cylin- 
drical, reddish purple, pale, a little narrower upwards: 
limb small, oblique, of five unequal lobes, pale bluish pur- 
ple. Fruit of four oblong, wrinkled, pale-brown achenia, 
firmly enclosed in the calyx. 
Versena bracteosaseems to have an extensive geographical 
range, it having been found in the Illinois country and in 
Kentucky, and lately by Mr. Doveras on the sands of 
Menzies Island in the river Columbia, and on dry gravelly 
river banks throughout almost all the Western parts of the 
Continent of North America which he visited. By him it 
was likewise introduced to the Horticultural Society’s Gar- 
dens, from whence the specimen here figured was kindly 
communicated in September, 1828. 
Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2. Pistil. 3. Fruit enclosed in the Calyx. 
4. Fruit separated from the Calyx.— Magnified. 
