notice of all lovers of pretty and curious plants. Two more 

 species of the same genus, E. violaceum and Musschianum, 

 are in the garden of Ghent. 



The Epimedium alpinum is common in Botanical gardens, 

 but its dusky brown flowers are so small as to escape notice ; 

 it is reputed to be a wild British plant, but Messrs. Morren 

 and Decaisne are of opinion that it is merely an outcast from 

 gardens, and that it is not really wild north of the Maritime 

 Alps in 44° n. lat. 



The dissections at the bottom of the plate represent, fig. 1. 

 one of the innermost petals, or nectaries as they are usually 

 called, with a stamen growing just in the mouth of its cavity ; 



2. a stamen with the valves of its anthers turning backwards; 



3. a pistil ; 4. a section of its ovary, shewing how the ovules 

 grow in two rows to an elevated placenta ; I do not find them 

 in three rows as described and figured by the learned Bota- 

 nists above quoted. 



