(54 FLOIl. TELLUR. 



Choisy, hardly differs from Verbenacea. This 

 G. is peculiar by calix, and includes 2 Sp. 



230. Kuritis gilii Raf. Selago do 11. b. m. 

 3028. Caulc teres pub. fol sparsis lin. obi. glabris 

 fl. glomeratis — South Africa, small shrub, flow- 

 ers lilac, lobes of corolla obi. obtuse. 



231. Kuritis clliata ^af. Selago do Choisy. 

 Fol. ovatis ciliatis imbricatis, fl. spicatis elon- 

 gatis, bracteis ciliatis — South Africa, The Sela- 

 go ciliata of Thunberg with ovate spikes, is a 

 real Selago, and different from this. 



232. Saxifraga, L. auct. This pretty group 

 of plants has, been made a single Genus by 

 nearly all the Linneists, being however united 

 by no common character, as I have shown in 

 the first part of this work. They had nothing 

 in common, not even habit ! It was a shameful 

 artificial Genus ; since the united plants be- 

 long even to 3 different Natural Orders and 

 Families, of two different Natural Classes. 



Order ASCADIA, nat. fam. Diceracea, all 

 those with coalescent calix and ovary. 



Order ISOSTIMIA nat. fam. Saxifragea, 

 all those with free calix and ovary, only one 

 Capsule. 



Order PERIMESIA nat. fam. Sarcophyl- 

 LiA, near Sedum, all those with free pistils and 

 several capsules, now the Genera Eriogyna 

 and lieptarhena 2G1, 2G3. 



Many Botanists have published monographs 

 of this Genus, but overlooking this capital blun- 

 der. Smith has only illustrated 50 Sp. Hooker 

 has 42 from North Amer. alone, others have 80 

 Sp. divided in Subgenera, Tausch monograph 

 I never saw, but has no generic reform. 1 shall 

 propose 12 new Genera rpiite as good as Erlo- 

 gijna and Leptarhena of Hooker, and present 



