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pendix is of a bright rose colour, and forms the principal 

 pai t of the flower." The describer relaxes, or relapses, 

 into common language so far as to add that ' this appen- 

 dix' "dispersed among the green foliage in every part 

 of the shrub, gives it a pretty lively appearance." 



Perhaps this may also be worth extracting. 



" Carina, deeply channeled, of a saturated purple with- 

 in, sides folded together, so as to include and firmly 

 embrace the style and stamens, which, when arrived at 

 maturity, upon being moved, escape elastically from their 

 confinement, and strike against the two erect petals or 

 alae by which the pollen is dispersed. 



" Stem shrubby, with long flexile branches." (Length 

 or height not told. I imagine like an ordinary heath's.) 



The terra 'carina,' occurring twice in the above descrip- 

 tion, is peculiar to the structure of the pease and milk- 

 worts; we will examine it afterwards. The European 

 varieties of the miikwort, except the chamaebuxus, are 

 all minute, and, their ordinary epithets being at least 

 inoffensive, I give them for reference till we find prettier 

 ones ; altering only the Calcarea, because we could not 

 have a < Chalk Juliet,' and two varieties of the Eegina, 

 changed for reason good her name, according to the 

 last modern refinements of grace and ease in pronuncia- 

 tion, being Eu-vularis, var. genuina ! My readers may 

 more happily remember her and her sister as follows : 



