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nules nearly spherical. Pistil as long as the stamens ; stigmas small, 

 acute ; germen linear-lanceolate, greenish leaden-coloured. 



This very pretty annual was raised at the Botanic Garden, from seeds 

 sent without name by Mr Thomas Churnside, nurseryman, New Yorlr, 

 and flowered in the greenhouse in the end of October. It was seen by 

 Mr James Macnab growing on the grassy banks of streams among the 

 Alleghany Mountains; and his native specimens differ in no respect 

 from those raised at the Garden, excepting in having smaller flower?. 

 One which I have from the collection of M. Beyrich, gathered on the 

 Peaks of Otter, has flowers as large as the garden specimens. 



From the synonyma I have excluded Geniiana quinquefolia of Flora Danica, 

 because, in the plant figured there, the leaves are ovate, the flowers axil- 

 lary as well as terminal, and much smaller, and because the identity of 

 an Iceland and Virginian plant seems unlikely. I have likewise ex- 

 cluded the Gentiana quinquefolia of the various works of Linnaeus, and 

 the Gentiana quinqueflora of Willdenow, Lamarck, and Sprengel, be- 

 cause reference is by them made to Flora Danica, and because the 

 leaves are generally described as ovate or oblong, and the stem simple. 

 1 have abstained from quoting Gentiana amarilloides of Michaux, because 

 he describes his plant as smaller than G. amarella^ with oval leaves, small 

 lateral as well as terminal flowers of pale yellow colour, and having the 

 segments of the limb lanceolate. In all these respects does our plant 

 differ. I have quoted with doubt Elliott, Torrey, and Beck, on account 

 of references they make, and some parts of their descriptions not accord- 

 ing either with native or cultivated specimens, yet I think they must 

 allude to the plant now described. In the other writers quoted, the re- 

 ferences are I think sometimes mistaken, but the character is corrected. 



Hakea ferriiginea. 



H. ferruginea ; follis omnibus planis obsolete crenatis, ovato oblongis, 

 3-5-nervibus, reticulatis, mucronatis ; bracteis striatis, glabris ; perian- 

 thio glabro. 



Hakea ferruginea, SvoeeVs Fl. australas. t. 45. 



Description. — Shrub erect, (specimen described 8 feet high). Bark 

 brown, on the twigs covered with brown tomentum. Branches long, 

 slender, drooping, somewhat flexuose. Leaves (2-3 inches long, 8-13 

 lines broad, on a free growing plant), largest below the origin of the 

 branches, ovato-oblong, terminated with a short, stout, and sphacelated 

 mucro, when young adpresso-pubescent, when old glabrous, 3-5-nerved, 

 reticulate, obsoletely crenate, sessile, and with the dilated base half em- 

 bracing the branches. Fasciles axillary, sessile. Scales of the flower-bud 

 brown, membranous, nerved, concave, ciliated and diaphanous in the 

 edge, the inner ones rhomboid and petiolate, the outer ovate and sessile. 

 Peduncle and every part of the flower glabrous. Style erect, bearing the 

 conical stigma (which is generally covered with the yellow granular pol- 

 len) beyond the recurved secund segments of the 4-parted perianth. 



We have had this plant in the Botanic Garden under the name of Hakea 

 elliptica^ and we raised it from seeds sent to us from New Holland by 

 Colonel Lindesay as H, marginata ; it is no doubt the H. ferruginea of 

 Sweet 1. c, which I had overlooked, because not quoted by Brown, till 

 pointed out to me by Dr Hooker. I can scarcely persuade myself that 

 Brown does not notice this plant in the Supplement to the Prodr. Fl. 

 Nov. Holland, because I understood the seeds which I received from 

 Colonel Lindesay were collected at King George's Sound ; but if he does 

 notice it, the form has been so altered in cultivation that the character 

 does not apply. It comes nearest Mr Brown's //. repanda^ which I was 

 inclined to consider it ; but Dr Hooker informs me, that a specimen 

 which he received from Cunningham, and which he believes to be H. re* 

 pandOy is different. 



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