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SCHIZANTHUS candidus. 

 White Schizanthus. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. Ord. SCROPHULARIACE/E. 



SCHIZANTHUS. Supra vol. 9.fol. 725. 



S. candidus ; follis pinnatifidis, laciniis linearibus imdulatis integris, corollae 

 labio inferiore 3-lobo : laciniis lateralibus setaceis intermedia biloba 

 acutissima, labio superiore alte bilobo. 



Botanists have raised this pretty genus from one, of which 

 it originally consisted, to four, or, with two now to be added, 

 to six. There also appears a seventh on our books, but that 

 is not distinguishable from S. pinnatus. All of them are pro- 

 bably, and five of them are certainly, in the country. A short 

 enumeration of them will we trust be useful. 



The original S. pinnatus has interruptedly pinnated leaves, 

 with crenated, pinnatifid, or toothed lobes, varying much in 

 form. The flowers are lilac, with a purple lower lip, whose 

 lateral lobes are at once falcate and spathulate. From this 

 S. porrigens was distinguished by Dr. Graham, on account of 

 its diverging flower-stalks, pale lower lip, and perhaps scarcely 

 emarginate upper lip ; but as the same parcel of seed pro- 

 duces both, and as they constantly come up intermixed in 

 the seed-beds, they do not appear distinct. Other varieties, 

 especially our S. pinnatus humilisy are known. 



From this must be separated a Coquimbo plant, found by 

 Bridges, (no. 1355), which, with somewhat smaller but similar 

 flowers to S. pinnatus, has merely pinnatifid leaves, with 

 rounded scarcely toothed lobes. The capsules are nearly twice 

 as large as those of S. pinnatus. We call it S. pinnatijidus, 



S. Hookeri is something like the two last, but it is more 

 hairy, and very much larger in all respects ; the divisions of 

 the pinnate leaves are narrow, and regularly pinnatifid ; the 

 lower lip of the corolla consists of very much acuminate 

 bristle-pointed pieces, the lateral of which are setaceous and 

 short ; the upper lip is almost cuspidately acuminate ; the 

 colour of the flowers is lilac, with a yellow stain on the upper lip. 



