siders it as distinct. Without an opportunity of compar: 
ing our plant with the specimens collected by Dr. Sr.) 
THORPE, it-is difficult to determine the question ; but what | 
leads us to doubt whether it be really the lunarifolia of | 
Siru, is the state of the Bractes, which, from a careful 
examination of the living specimens, we think could not 
be described as ovate-lanceolaté, much less could they be 
called wide (late). We have thought it safest therefore, 
to avoid multiplying species unnecessarily, to steer a mid: 
dle course, b considering it asa variety. But shouldit — 
hereafter be determined to be a distinct species, Lacasca’s - 
name Russeliana will be very appropriate, as we have no 
doubt but that it is the same species of which Dr. Russeu 
has given a figure in his history of Aleppo, and which he 
thought might perhaps be a yellow flowered variety of | 
Putomis Herba venti. ee we 
__ A hardy perennial. Communicated by A. B. Lampert, 
Esq. in June last. We received a specimen of the same | 
species in July 1820, from Mr. Kent, late of Clapton, in 
whose garden it was perhaps first seen in this country, but — 
m whence he received it is uncertain. | 
