In Dr. Barron’s Flora the capsules are described as en- 
tirely radical, but in our plant, after the flowering was over _ 
they were raised upon a short stem. The flowers imhis 
figure are smaller than with us, and more decidedly three — 
lobed at the point. | 
There is a near affinity between this species and the 
acaulis of Cavaniuugs, the grandiflora of the Flora Peru- 
viana, which also, under cultivation, becomes caulescent, 
and to a. greater degree, as appears by the figure given 
of it in the Botanical Register ; but that species has white 
flowers, and differs in the form of its capsules, and in other 
respects. Triloba is not a good name, we think that tarax- 
- acifolia would have been much better, but having been 
ublished under the former in America, we do not hold — 
it right to change it. ot 
A hardy annual or biennial. Native of the arid and al- 
most denudated Prairies of the Red River, in North Ame- 
rica, where it was first discovered, in 1819, by Professor 
Norratt, who gave seeds of it, with his name attached, 
to Rosert Barcray, Ese. of Bury Hill, to whom we are 
indebted for the communication of the plant from which 
our drawing was taken, in September, 1824. 
