parted, greenish tipped with red, glabrous, persistent, seg- 
ments gibbous at the base. Corolla white, campanulate, 
somewhat contracted near the mouth, which is five-cleft, 
the segments blunt and spreading. Stamens included ; 
filaments shorter than the pistil, erect; Anthers yellow, 
each with two slender, spreading, hispid bristles. Pistd 
searcely longer than the stamens ; Stigma obtuse ; Style 
persisting, straight, slightly tapering upwards. Germen 
roundish-oval, obscurely four-lobed, depressed at the in- 
sertion of the style, and surrounded at the base by a 
wrinkled, glandular ring. Capsule erect, nearly globular, 
glabrous, with five cells, the dissepiments arising from the 
centre of the valves, which are inflected in their apices. 
The seeds of this interesting little plant, which we hop 
may yet be found indigenous to Britain, were kindly com 
municated to the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, by D 
Ricuarpson and Mr. Drummonp, on the return from Nort 
America of the last expedition, under the command 0 
os gia Franxuin. It flowered for the first time in Apri 
1832, in the same border with, though rather later than, its” 
beautiful congener and native of the same country, ANDRO- 
MEDA hypnoides. We have two varieties, of which only on 
la Bi flowered to reward the judicious treatment of M 
Fig. 1. Upper side of a leaf. 2. Under side of ditto. 3. Flower. 4 
Stamen. 5, Calyx, including the Pistil. 6. Pistil—Magnified. 4 
