to the bafe of the capfule. This caruncle frequently falls of 
in the dried feed. The whole plant is fucculent, mild, and 
probably eatable, like purflane. 
Profeffor WittpENnow probably had the feeds of his plant 
from England; but his fpecimens muft have been very de- 
feétive. His inaccurate defcription has, of courfe, led Mr. 
BonpxanpD into an error, inducing him to believe the plant, 
which he calls cudenfis, was a different fpecies. It is how- 
ever undoubtedly the fame; and his figure and defcription 
being taken from plants that came up fpontaneoufly every 
year in the Botanic Garden at Paris, leads to a fufpicion 
that their origin was from the mould that- came with fome 
plants from England, and not, as fuppofed, from feeds gathered 
in Cuba, by Humsott and Bonriann. If not, it is rather 
_ extraordinary that the fame fpecies fhould be native of Nootka- 
Sound and the Ifland of Cuba: a plant too, whofe very habit 
declares it more likely to be an inhabitant of the arélic than 
of the tropical regions. 
The CLaytonia perfoliata was difcovered on the north- 
weit coaft of America, by Mr. Arcuisatp Mewnziezs, and 
introduced by him into the Kew Garden, in the year 1796, 
where it has maintained itfelf ever fince, and whence it has 
been communicated to moft of the Botanic Gardens in the 
kingdom. 
Flowers nearly all the fummer; and in a moift foil,. not 
too much expofed, will fow itfelf, and the young plants will 
come up in the {pring, requiring no other care than to prevent 
their being choked by more powerful weeds, or cut off by that 
deftruftive inftrument the hoe. Our drawing was taken at 
Mr. Sacispury’s Botanic Garden, Brompton, the latter end 
of the fummer, when the plants are lefs vigorous than in the 
fpring; at which feafon the {cape is much longer, and appears, 
as it were, jointed, the flowers growing in bunches at each 
joint. The cauline leaves are then for the moft part more 
perfeftly connate, and form a nearly orbicular involucrum, 
through the centre of which the fcape paffles, — 
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