upper side, and keeled on the lower, furrowed on each 

 side, thickly clothed with bristly hairs : leaves on the 

 flowering stems sessile, smooth and glaucous, more 

 acute, concave, lower ones opposite, the upper ones al- 

 ternate. Racemes terminal, sometimes panicled. jBrac- 

 tes lanceolate, acute, concave, keeled at the back, smooth 

 and glaucous. Pedicles long and slender, smooth, trans- 

 parent at the base, nodding before flowering, erect when 

 in bloom, afterwards reflexed. Calyx of 5 smooth, glau- 

 cous sepals, the 2 outer ones very small, subulate : 

 inner ones cordately ovate, acute, concave, with sca- 

 riose, membranaceous margins. Petals 5, obovate, 

 slightly crenulate, distinct and widely spreading, of a 

 bright light yellow, darker near the base. Stamens 

 about 50, inner ones overtopping the stigma, outer ones 

 much shorter : filaments smooth, light yellow : pollen 

 orange-coloured. Germen downy. Style very short, 

 scarcely any. Stigma large, capitate, granular. 



A handsome herbaceous perennial plant, which suc- 

 ceeds best in rock- work in sandy soil ; as it is a native 

 of the South of Europe, it is rather tender, and should 

 be planted in a southern aspect, but it will suffer more 

 from too much moisture than from cold, for if planted 

 out in the common borders it thrives well all the Sum- 

 mer, but will seldom survive the Winter, as its roots 

 get rotten with too much wet. 



Plants of it grown in pots, and kept in frames through 

 the Winter, may be turned out in the borders in Spring, 

 where they will flower profusely, and will ripen their 

 seeds ; they succeed well in an equal mixture of turfy 

 loam and peat, or any other light sandy soil, and are 

 increased freely by seeds, which ripen in abundance. 

 Our drawing was taken from a plant that we received 

 from the Nursery of Mr. Joseph Knight, last Summer. 

 We have a drawing of a very curious nearly related 

 species, but quite shrubby, and of a hard woody tex- 

 ture, which we received from the collection at the Apo- 

 thecaries' Company's Garden at Chelsea. 



