much below the middle, with numerous slender, red, glan- 
dular, extremely divaricated branches, each terminated with 
a single flower. At the base of the primary branches are 
small, linear bractee, larger and leafy in the lower part of 
the panicle. Calyx of five leaves, bent back so as to lie 
against the pedicel. Stamens: five become perfect before 
the other five: Filaments slender, white: anthers orange- 
colour, subglobose. Petals five, white; three upper ones 
the largest, exactly ovate, contracted at the base into a dis- 
tinct pedicel or claw, and having each two roundish, yellow 
spots. T'wo lower petals oblong, narrower at the base, spot- 
less. Pistil: Germen oblong, cleft into two, nearly erect 
styles, superior. The Calyx and Stamens persist long after 
the petals have fallen away. | 
Nothing can appear more elegant than the flowers of this 
little-known Saxrrrace, when seen under a small power of 
the microscope, as represented at fig. 1. They have a 
considerable similarity to those of S. stellaris: near which 
the species ranks. 
Our plants, from which the figures were taken, were 
raised in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, from seeds which 
Dr. Granam received from the Rocky Mountains of North 
America, where they had been gathered by Mr. Drummonp. 
The blossoms were in perfection in June, being produced 
upon plants, in pots, indeed, but in the open air. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil— Magnified. 
