genus. No soil has yet been found which suits it : it 

 flowers abundantly, but will not produce seed. It is to 

 be feared, that, unless a fresh supply is procured from 

 N. W. America, the species will be lost to our Gardens. 



Stem ascending, about a foot high, or a foot and a half, 

 sometimes even two feet, but this is unusual ; very glaucous, 

 as are the leaves, and all the other parts. Radical leaves 

 erect, rising up the base of the stem, before they are changed 

 into cauline ones. Bractece veiny, coriaceous ; the lower- 

 most longer than the flowers. Flowers arranged in sub- 

 sessile fascicles, which are axillary in the bractese, purple, 

 bordered with lively blue. Caly.ves coriaceous, the sepals 

 very much acuminate, growing larger after flowering. 

 Corolla thrice as long as the calyx, quite smooth ; the 

 tube funnel-shaped, slightly arched ; the limb very oblique, 

 with broad, rounded, or retuse segments. Sterile filament 

 shorter than the tube, slightly hairy, and hooked at the 

 point. 



J. L. 



Note upon Teucrium orchideum, fol. 1255. 



Mr. Don has obligingly pointed out to us that this plant is evidently the 

 T. heterophyllum of Cavanilles, icon. vol. 6. p. 56. t. 511 . ; a circumstance to 

 which we had not adverted. It is not, however, the T. heterophyllum of 

 L'Heritier, to which the name is usually applied. Teucrium orchideum will 

 therefore continue to stand as a distinct species, with the synonym of Cava- 

 nilles added to it. 



