also clothed with little tufts of woolly hairs, and more 

 than double the length of the footstalks. Peduncles 

 erect, shorter than the calyx, thickly clothed with a dense 

 pubescence, and little tufts of short hairs intermixed. 

 Calyx of 5 sepals, clothed with a short tomentum : the 

 two outer sepals small, linear, taper-pointed, and keel- 

 ed: three inner ones ovate, taper-pointed, three-nerved, 

 remaining persistent, and spreading when in fruit. Pe- 

 tals 5, about the length of the calyx, oblongly ovate, dis- 

 tinctly spreading, of a pale sulphur colour, with a bright 

 orange-coloured spot near the base of each. Stamens 

 about 20 : filaments light yellow, smooth, unequal in 

 length. Germen triquetrous, the angles hairy. Style 

 erect, thickening upwards, about the length of the sta- 

 mens, terminated by a small slightly 3-lobed Stigma. 

 Capsule acutely 3-sided, glossy, the angles clothed with 

 short hairs. Seeds small, numerous, pointed at one end, 

 angular, pitted, of a dark brown colour. 



The present curious species is an annual plant, and is 

 a native of England, as well as other different parts of 

 Europe; in this country it is but rarely met with, and 

 chiefly about Brent Down, in Somersetshire, where H. 

 polifoliun is also abundant; for seeds of which, we are 

 much obliged to Mr. Thomas Clark, jun. of Bridge- 

 water, who was so kind as to send us some. 



Our drawing of the present species was taken from 

 plants raised in our garden from seeds given us by 

 H. B. Ker, Esq. ; it is readily distinguished from all 

 others with which we are acquainted, by its very large 

 glossy capsule : our plants were raised from seeds sown 

 early in Spring, those flowered the end of May and in 

 June, and soon ripened their seeds, some of which we 

 sowed again as soon as ripe, those flowered in Autumn 

 and through the Winter, until the frost destroyed them : 

 the seeds only require to be sown in the open ground, 

 and to be kept free from weeds. 



