218 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



the curvature is so sharp that it brings the extremity of the spur 

 against the side of the hood ; tlie extreme apex also is notehed. 

 The ^vholc plant is of a duller green, and frequently tinged -witli 

 brownish red. The stem is usually taller, 1 to L feet high, thicker 

 and more succulent. 



Orange Balsam. 



SPECIES III.— IMP ATIENS PARVIPLORA. D.G. 

 Plate CCCXV. 



Leaves oval, abruptly acuminate, or shortly cuspidate at the 

 apex, closely serrated with small equal rather shallow teeth. Stipules 

 small. Peduncles many-flowered. Flowers sub-erect. The spurred 

 sepal very little longer than broad, elongate-conical, suddenly 

 narroAved a little above the enlarged base; spur straight to the 

 apex which is entire. 



In waste places and cultivated ground. A native of Siberia, but 

 tolerably well naturalized. Prequent about London, as at Battersea, 

 Wandsworth, and Wimbledon ; also in Cambridgeshire, Lancasliire, 

 and other places. 



[England]. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 8 to 18 inches high, slightly bi'anched. Lamina of 

 the leaves 2 to 3 inches long, suddenly narrowed at the 

 base, and decurrent on the petiole nearly to its base ; the 

 margins closely and evenly serrated ; the serratures apiculatc. 

 Flowers in axillary panicles of from 3 to 12 flowers, which are 

 about ^ inch long, pale buff yellow slightly spotted with red in 

 the inside. Capsule ^ to f inch long. The smaller flowers and 

 straight spur, as well as the more evenly and finely sei*rated leaves 

 terminating in an acuminate point, at once distinguish this fi'om 

 the two preceding species. 



Small Balsam. 

 German, KleinbliUhiges Springhravt, 



ORDER XXL— ILICINE-ffl. 



Trees or shrubs, generally glabrous or evergreen, without glands 

 and with watery juice. Leaves alternate, exstipulatc, stalked, simple, 

 leathery, generally entire. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, 

 cymose, or more rarely with solitary or fascicled pedicels in the axils 

 of the leaves. Flowers rather small, white, regular, perfect, poly- 



