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124. POGONIA plicate. Lindl. gen. & sp. orch. p. 415. 



This little terrestrial Orchidaceous plant was found in soil 

 from the Mauritius, and has flowered in the collection of His 

 Grace the Duke of Northumberland at Sion. Its flowers are 

 dull olive green, with a pale lilac labellum, emarginate at the 

 point, rolled over the column, and strongly painted with green 

 veins, five of which are parallel with each other and occupy 

 the centre of the lip. The leaves, which are independent of 

 the flowers, are plaited, dull purplish brown, and covered with 

 soft bristles. 



i/ 125. PLEUROTHALLIS breviflora; folio camoso obovato-oblongo apice 

 rotundato subtus purpurascente, floribus sessilibus paucis fasciculatis 

 pilosis, sepalis ovatis lateralibus connatis intus laevibus, petalis ovatis 

 apiculatis, labello carnoso obovato lsevi basi excavato pone apicem angu- 

 lato et subdenticulato. 



A Mexican Orchidaceous plant imported by Messrs. Lod- 

 diges, and very near P. aphthosa, with which it agrees in the 

 colour of its flowers. The principal differences are the follow- 

 ing ; P. breviflora has, as its name implies, much shorter and 

 broader flowers ; they are more hairy ; and they are destitute 

 of the tubercles inside the sepals ; the labellum is obovate, 

 and angular, as if about to produce a tooth, on each side near 

 the apex ; finally, the leaves are obovate and stained with 

 purple, instead of being oval and sharp pointed. 



126. PHACELIA fimbriata. Michaux Flora Boreali americana, vol. i. p. 

 134. t. 16. 



In a recent visit to the private flower nursery of Messrs. 

 Beck, Allen k Co., I remarked this pretty new hardy annual, 

 cultivated under the name of Cosmanthus fimbriatus. \v ith 

 whom the latter originated I cannot discover, nor on what 

 ground the present species is separated from Phacelia, unless 

 it is because of the tube of the corolla being destitute of the 

 scales found in other species of that genus. It is a native of 

 various parts of North America; Michaux found it on the 

 mountains of Carolina, Pursh near Harper's Ferry on the 

 Potowmac, and I have it from Kentucky. It forms a strag- 

 gling plant with the habit of Nemophila atomaria; but it is 

 prettier, on account of a curious glandular fringe that bor- 

 Aurjust, I. — 1841. i 



