Sir J. E. Surrn's Observations on the Genus Teesdalia. 287 
Although the specific name nudicaulis is applicable to both, I 
would retain it for our English species ; not only to avoid needless 
changes, and to preserve an association familiar to most botanists, 
but especially on account of the uncertainty (which I cannot pre- 
sume I have quite dissipated) whether there be really more than. 
one species. ‘The figure in the Flora Danica rather favours this 
uncertainty. Though that figure can, surely, only represent the 
Iberis nudicaulis, the petals are made nearly equal, and the sta- 
mens in one, or perhaps two, flowers, are shown to be only four. 
In another they seem to be six. The petals are too sharp, as well 
as too small, for our Teesdalia nudicaulis, but the petals of my 
T. regularis are likewise obtuse. "The scales, or appendages, are 
erroneously placed on the external side of each filament, or rather 
on four of them only. In our English Teesdalia they certainly 
stand on the inner side, just above the base, of every one of the 
six filaments, though smaller on the two opposite ones than on the 
rest. The faithful Leefling describes them as so situated on the 
four stamens of what I call Teesdalia regularis. 
I beg the favour of you to lay this communication. before the 
Linnean. Society ; 
And remain, 
With great regard, &c. 
PE eo J.-E. Smiru. 
` March 12, 1814. 
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