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ringly denticulate, the upper narrowest and most pointed, those at the 

 root attenuated into petioles as long as themselves, both the leaf and 

 petiole being ciliated with minute reflected hairs. Raceme terminal, 

 moderately elongating ; pedicels erect, filiform, elongating, and like 

 every other part of the plant glabrous. Flowers erect. Calyx coloured 

 or green, segments subacute, with membranous edges, half the length of 

 the elongated pedicel. Corolla white ; petals spathulate, with long claws, 

 twice the length of the calyx. Stamens all longer than the calyx, the 

 longer exceeding the shorter by less than the length of the anthers ; 

 filaments slightly tapering. Gertnen linear, afterwards dilated at its 

 apex, central nerve more conspicuous than the others. Stigma sessile, 

 small, entire, stretched along the blunt apex of the germen. Capsule 

 much elongated, always erect and straight, subspathulate, many-seeded. 

 Seeds arranged in two rows in each loculament, bordered ; cotyledons 

 flat, embryo applied longitudinally to their edges. 



The species was raised from seeds collected by Mr Drummond in the 

 Rocky Mountains, and flowered in the Botanic Garden in May. 



The two new species here described are at first sight distinguished from 

 each other by the direction of the pedicels and fruit, which in the first 

 spread wide and are secund, but in the second are perfectly erect on all 

 sides. They are distinguished, in a young state, by the root-leaves being 

 hairy in Turritis patida, but glabrous in T. striata. 



Celestial Phenomena from October 1. 1829 to January 1. 1830, 

 calcvlated for the Meridian of Edinburg-h, Mean Time. 

 By Mr George Innes, Aberdeen. 



The times are inserted according to thu Civil reckoning, the day lieginning at midnight. 

 — The Conjunctions of the Moon with the Stars are given in Riglit Ascension. 



