NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 319 



ovary is smooth is a mistake. It is quite as hispid in this as in 

 other species. 



11. Leptosiphon ciliatum. Bentham in PI. Hartweg. p. 325. 



A rather pretty annual, with quite the habit of other Leptosi- 

 phons, but with very long, transparent, jointed hairs covering the 

 deeply divided leaves. The owers are smaller than in L. densi- 

 florum, with a slender brown hairy tube, a yellow throat, and a 

 deep rose-coloured border. Not very pretty. The seeds were 

 bought of Mr. Carter. 



12. Bahia latifolia.* 



An annual, with erect branching woolly stems, the colour and 

 size of Antennaria margaritacea. The lower leaves are opposite, 

 somewhat pinnatifid or three-parted, and coarsely serrate above the 

 middle, dull green, covered with cobweb-like down, the upper 

 alternate, slightly pinnatifid, coai'sely serrate, and entire, those 

 next the flower-heads almost amplexicaul ; all are strongly marked 

 with deeply-impressed rib-like veins. The flower-heads are soli- 

 tary at the end of long woolly erect stalks ; their involucre is 

 covered with cottony wool, except at the ends of the scales, where 

 it sometimes disappears. The florets of the ray are about 12 or 

 14, broad, deep yellow, and handsome. The young achaenia 

 are silky, and surmouuted by a pappus consisting of 8 membranous 

 scales, four of which are alternately much smaller. Seeds of it 

 were purchased from Mr. Carter, who obtained them from 

 California. 



Although related to B. lanata, this plant is assuredly different 

 in its much greater stature and very broad leaves, with their 

 deeply sunken veins, and divaricating segments. 



13. Specularia perfoliata. Alph. De Cand. Mon. Camp. p. 551. 

 — Campanula perfoliata Linnaus. 



This annual has been raised in the Garden from seeds pur- 



* B. lalifolia; annua, erecta, ramosa, araueosa, pedunculis elongatis 

 lanatis monocephalis, radiis 10-12, achasniis sericeis, pappi squamis 8 erosis 

 alterne duplo minoribus, foliis subcostatis infimis oppositis lanceolatis 

 supra medium pinnatifidis v. tripartitis laciniis divaricatis sensim acutis ; 

 superioribus alternis oblongis sensim in oblonga semi-amplexicaulia 

 mutatis. — J. L. 



