texture of the stem is not to be judged of from dried speci- 

 mens, and that such differences are in all cases to be dis- 

 trusted, unless they have been observed upon the living plant. 

 For instance this plant, which the dried specimens induced 

 Mr. Bentham, as they would have done any one else, to regard 

 as a shrub is in reality a mere biennial. 



The drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society where it had been raised from seeds collected by Mr. 

 Hartweg in Pine woods near Bolanos, at the elevation of 

 8000 feet above the sea. 



