2 outer ones linear, very small ; style none ; stigma somewhat 3-lobed. y. . 

 Native of New Spain. Moc. et Sesse fl. mex. ic. ined. 



We have placed the last three species in this Section, chiefly, because 

 all the American species we have yet seen, belong to it. 



Sect. III. TUBERARIA. Supra folio 18. 



12. H. globularicefblium (Pers. syn. 2. p. 77.) Perennial ; stems as- 

 cending, simple, upper part nearly naked ; root-leaves with long footstalks, 

 somewhat spathulate, obtuse : stem ones sessile, acute, the whole hairy ; 

 flower-stalks in a few-flowered cyme, bearing a bracte at the base ; calyx 

 smooth. 2/ . Native of the North of Portugal. Petals yellow, spotted at 

 the base, or sometimes not spotted ; stamens violaceus. 



13. H. bupleurifblium (Dunal in DC. prodr. p. 270.) Stem herbaceous, 

 erect, clothed at the base with a white pubescence : the upper part smooth, 

 and somewhat glossy ; leaves oblong, acute, smooth, tapering downwards 

 into a long footstalk : stem ones opposite : the upper ones alternate, and 

 bearing stipules ; flower-stalks long, clothed with a hairy pubescence ; pedi- 



' eels and calyx clothed with long hairs. ^?? Native of Spain, and Portugal. 

 Pedicels without bractes; outer sepals ovate, obtuse, about half the length 

 of the inner ones, which are acute ; stipules long, somewhat linear. 



14. H. heterodoxum (Dunal in DC. prodr. p. 270.) Stem erect, her- 

 baceous, hairy : hairs long, white ; leaves sessile, oblongly lanceolate, 

 rough, woolly, nerves on the upper side hairy : lower ones opposite : upper 

 ones alternate, bearing stipules ; racemes secund, hairy, without bractes ; 

 flowers on short footstalks, near each other, somewhat imbricate ; outer 

 sepals largest, closing in the inner ones, similar to the bractes !Q? Na- 

 tive of Africa, near Valle ; also, in Spain. Outer sepals hairy on both 

 sides : inner ones smooth inside, glossy, with a membranaceous margin ; 

 capsule somewhat pointed ; seeds numerous, nearly globular, pale yellow, 

 glaucous, roughish ; flowers yellow. 



15. H. plantagmeum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 77.) Stem herbaceous, erect, 

 hairy; leaves elliptically lanceolate, opposite, sessile, 3-nerved : underneath 

 clothed with shaggy wool, hairy on the nerves : upper side hairy, the 

 hairs simple, and closely pressed to the leaves : upper ones more or less al- 

 ternate, oblongly linear, bearing stipules ; racemes short, without bractes ; 

 outer sepals smoothish, narrowly linear, about equal with the inner ones, 

 which are clothed with white shaggy wool ; petals slightly toothed. 0. 

 Native of Crete, Corsica, Spain, and the North of Africa. Plant clothed 

 with white hairs ; petals yellow, and not spotted. 



16. H. guttatum (Mill. diet. n. 18.) Stem herbaceous, annual, some- 

 what hairy ; leaves opposite, sessile, oblongly linear, 3-nerved, clothed with 

 shaggy hairs : the extreme upper ones alternate ; racemes loose, without 

 bractes ; flower-stalks filiform, nearly naked ; outer sepals about half the 

 length of the inner ones.0. Native of England? France, Italy, Spain, 

 Portugal, and Turkey ; but is not H. eriocaulon intended for some of the 

 above habitats ? Not having seen a wild specimen of the English plant, 

 we are not certain to which of the two it belongs; the one generally cul- 

 tivated in flower borders, is H. eriocaulon, which is readily known by its 

 very hairy stem, and bracteate racemes ; the stem of H. guttatum being 

 nearly smooth, and the racemes without bractes. Petals yellow, with a 

 dark spot near the base. 



17. H. inco?ispicuum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 77.) Stem slender, herbaceous, 

 branching, 2-3-forked, thinly hairy; leaves opposite, narrow, oblongly 



