the extremity of the scapes, which become elongated as the 
fructification advances to maturity. Pedicels very short, 
downy. Calyx having its tube obconical and adnate with 
the germen, downy, the limb or free portion deeply cleft 
‘into five triangular, reflected segments, green. Corolla of 
five, pectinated, yellow, reflexed petals, alternating with 
the segments of the calyx, and inserted at their sinuses, the 
segments few, and very slender, opposite. Stamens only 
five, inserted just at the base of the petals. Filament ex- 
tremely short, incurved, shorter than the anther, which is 
subglobose, two-celled, yellow. Germen immersed in the 
tube of the calyx, its upper, and almost flattened extremity 
being alone free. Stigmas two, sessile, bilobed, downy. 
Capsule invested by the persistent calyx and petals, top- 
shaped, opening at the extremity between the stigmas, into 
two short, but very spreading valves, which lie back so 
much as to expose the seeds entirely, long before they are 
ready to be dispersed. ‘These are attached to two oppo- 
site, longitudinal and parietal receptacles. : 
Raised in the Botanic Gardens both of Edinburgh and 
Glasgow, from seeds brought from the Rocky Mountains of 
North America, by Mr. Drummonp. The plant as may be 
supposed is perfectly hardy: blossoming early in June, 
and scattering its numerous polished-black seeds before 
the end of that month. 
Notwithstanding the reduced number of stamens in this 
plant, the short filaments, and the two-lobed stigma, so en- 
tirely has it the habit and every essential character of 
- Mrrexza, that I am unwilling to separate it from that 
Genus. The petals are very beautiful, always reflexed, 
and of a rather rigid texture. - 
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Fig. 1. Unexpanded Flower. 2. Flower fully opened. 3. Petal. 4, 
Stamen. 5. Capsule, with its Valyes burst, and including the Seeds.—All 
more or less magnified. 
