Our plant, which was communicated by our kind friend 
Mr. W ee ee ee oe 
the one published in the Botanical , Register,, No. 667, 
under the name of Loasa éricolor. By a comparison both 
} parison 
with the figure and description of mitida in the Anniles — 
above quoted, and with a <n Bae eh in the Lam- 
bertian Herbarium, we have very little doubt of its - 
ing to that species, It-is) remarkable for 
dark shinin the upper surface of the leaves. 
The whole genus has probably more or less of the sting- 
ing quality of the common nettle. Of the virulence of the 
present species we have ourselves had personal experience, 
the effects of a puncture at the end of the thumb being 
felt, not continually indeed, but at intervals, especially on 
first rising in the morning, for six days. The sensation was 
chiefly a bettitieg heat in the part, not accompanied with 
the intolerable itching that sometimes follows the sting of 
a nettle. A tender annual. Propagated by seeds which 
should be sown on a hot-bed in the Spring. Native of 
Lima, in Peru, according to Domsey, where it grows among 
the rocks. Mr. Waxker raised it from seeds received from 
