Professor Zuccarini first described the species in his ac- 

 count of the new plants cultivated in the Botanical Garden of 

 Munich, where it was raised from Mexican seeds collected by 

 Count Karwinski. The supply, from which the plants now 

 in our collections have been obtained, has however been fur- 

 nished by the Horticultural Society, to whom seeds were sent 

 by Mr. Hartweg, who found the species in Mexico, in a place 

 called the Banco. 



Those who are students of the British Flora will not fail 

 to recognise in this gay Lopezia, the same features as those 

 of our own little Enchanter's Nifjhtshade, with which it is 

 associated in a natural arrangement. In this plant the second 

 stamen of Circsea is converted into a spoon-shaped petal. 



