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* LOPEZIA lineata. 

 Line-leaved Lopezia. 



MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. OnagracetE. 



LOPEZIA. Cav. Cahjcis limbus 4-partitus deciduus. Petala 4 irre- 

 gularia. Stamina 2, uiio fertili aiitlierifero, altero opposite sterili, petaK- 

 i'ormi, a petalis veris ssepius discolore. Stigma capitatum. Cajjsida nuda, 

 subglobosa, 4-locularis, apice tanti'im loculicido-4-valvis; valvis placentae cen- 

 tral! dissepimentis adiiatis. Semina plurima, minima. Herbse erecfce, aut 



suifrutices. Folia dentata, alterna, scepiiis ojjposita. Racemi caulem ramosque 

 terminantes. Yloxts, jjedicellati, pwjmrei. DC. prodr. 3. 62. 



L. lineata ; frutescens, caule petiolisque hirsiitis, foliis breviter petiolatis e 

 basi rotundata ovatis acutis crenato-serrulatis utrinque pubescentibus, 

 venis approximatis costatis superne lineatis, pedunculis glabris, glandula 

 in petalorum superiorum (angustiorum) ungue basi rotundata solitaria. 

 Zuccarini Plantarum Novarum minus v. Cognitarum fasciculus 2. p. 31. 

 no. 13. Benth. Plant. Hartweg. p. 37. no. 287. 



A pretty soft-wooded greenhouse slirub, growing about 

 three feet high, and flowering freely during the latter part of 

 autumn and winter. 



It is easily increased by seeds, grows rapidly in any good 

 garden soil, and might be treated as a half-hardy annual, but 

 in that case it must be brought forward early in the 

 spring; otherwise flowering so very late it is destroyed by the 

 frost before its blossoms unfold. 



It is chiefly valuable in the months of January and 

 February when it is covered by little insect-like red flowers, 

 and is at that time so different in appearance from other 

 plants of the season, that it becomes a doubly welcome acqui- 

 sition. 



* So called by Cavauillcs after the Licentiate Thomas Lopez, an obscure 

 Spanish naturahst. 



