the length of the calyx: limb flat, yellow. The longer | 
filaments dilated on_one side. Style longer than the sta- — 
mens, persistent. Stigma capitate. Silicule 2-lobed : lobes — 
orbicular, marginate, not hairy but the disk roughened — 
by crystalline elevated glands, not united with the style 
or only for a very short distance. | 
The above description was taken from the plant from — 
which our drawing was made, and appears to agree in 
most respects with that of De Cannone; and certainly 
with the synonyms he has quoted, which are however 
the same as those adopted by Lannaus for his auri- 
culata ; nor does it seem to us that the characters made 
use of by this learned botanist to distinguish this species 
from auriculata are entirely satisfactory: in our speci- 
mens the spurs of the calyx were rather obtuse than 
acute, though longer and less rounded at the end than 
in the specimens of auriculata which we have exam-_ 
ined. The principal difference between the two appears 
to us to be, the much greater hairiness of hispida, and 
greater dentation of the leaves, even of the superior ones, 
which in auriculata are generally quite entire, or nearly so. 
BiscuTeLLa, as a genus, is much extended since Linnaus, 
who, in his Species Plantarum, has only two species, in- 
creased in the last edition of the Systema Vegetabilium to 
six, and finally extended by De Canpouzz to twenty-three. 
These are by him very usefully separated into two sections. 
Ist, Such as have a calyx with two spurs, the Jonpraga of 
some authors. 2dly, Those in which the leaflets of the 
calyx are equal; which have been considered as a distinct 
genus, under the name of TuLaspipium. 
A hardy annual. Native of the south of France and the 
north of Italy. Communicated by N. S. Hopson, Esq. 
from the botanic garden at Bury St. Edmunds; where, we 
are informed by the intelligent curator, it was introduced 
by Mr. Fiscuer, of the Gottingen garden. 
