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ippeared as easily distinguishable as any other two species 
of their genus; and, indeed, among the cultivated plants, 
equally distinct examples may still be found, although others 
run so much alike. All the specimens of M. maritima, which 
I collected in Pico, the only habitat in which I found the 
species, were growing on the rocks by the shore, exposed to 
the sun, and with very little soil for their roots. All were 
obviously unhealthy, being shrivelled, twisted and distorted, 
with fruit mostly abortive, and only 2 to 4 inches in height. 
But when grown in flower-pots in England, with a sufficiency 
of soil, supplied with water, and kept rather in shade, they 
become straight, healthy plants, of 12 or 18 inches high, 
bearing a resemblance to our M. sylvatica. Some of the 
pale-flowered examples of M. Azorica very nearly meet these 
highly developed examples of the M. maritima; not only in 
the pale tint of the flowers, but also in the more rounded 
Segments of the corolla, and the enlarged circle or “eye” 
around the orifice of the tube; the segments or lobes of the 
corolla being obliquely cordate, and the * eye? very small, 
Im the deep-coloured plants of M. Azorica. It would be 
difficult to express on paper the differences in those small 
folds or elevations of the corolla, which surround the orifice — 
of the tube in Myosotis, Primula, &c. ; but they afford practi- _ 
cal distinctions to the eye, available for recognizing species. 
.148. Hyoscyamus Canariensis (Ker.)—“ Not distinctly — 
different from the H. Albus of Dalmatia, which is a very 
variable plant.” Dr. R. C. Alexander, in letter. ed 
150. Sibthorpia Europea (Linn.)—It may be worth men- 
tioning that two or three good botanists have sought to — 
Correct my labels for this plant, by intimations that it is the — 
a prostrata; but assuredly it is our English Sib- — — 
thorpia. "The Disandra has not been found in the Azores, $4 
native of other Atlantic islands. ud Cu 
156. Lysimachia Azorica (Hornem.)—The specimens col- - 
by myself in Fayal and Flores, and the plants raised - 
from their seeds in England, were so easily disting 
L. nemorum (Linn.) by their narrowly ellipti 
