A TRIBE OF 
and filifolia, to which he has since added 
Pursh’s two above-mentioned species, and 
suggests that G. auriculata may be a Sey- 
— meria. To me, however, the latter plant 
does not present any resemblance to Sey- 
meria, but a very close one to G. flava. 
— However, the purple short corolla, and the 
. . two abortive anthers seem to authorise the 
considering it by itself as a separate section 
of Gerardia, to which I have given the 
name of Otophylla. 
Nuttall further adopts Pursh's Seymeria, 
but adds to it, under the name of S. ma- 
. erophylla, a plant which appears to me to 
have neither the characters nor habit of 
—. that genus, but to be closely allied in both 
respects to G. pedicularia and quercifolia. 
—. Some differences, however, in the anthers, 
which are not aristate as in the section 
- Pedicularoides, and the short curved and 
oblique corolla, have induced me to include 
it in a separate section of Gerardia, which 
I have named Cyrtocodon. 
Elliott, in his Botany of South Carolina 
and Georgia, added two new species to the 
Section Eugerardia, viz. G. fasciculata 
and Plukenetii. 
Kunth described, from amongst Hum- 
boldt and Bonpland's plants, three Mexican 
Species, G. virgata, which, with a habit in 
: Some measure approaching Seymerva, has 
sed its characters, but forms another spe- 
cies of the section Cyrtocodon, and G. 
prostrata and serpyllifolia, neither of which 
I have seen, but of which the former, if not 
both, belong also probably to the same 
group. 
_ Chamisso and Schlechtendal have pub- 
ished in the Linnea a new purple-flow- 
ered species from Mexico, G. dasyantha, 
Which, with the G. pectinata, separated by 
i 
now fr t described, viz. G. grandiflora of 
the section Pedicularoides, G. densiflora, 
peduncularis of Eugerardia, complete the 
ber of twenty-four North American 
now known, all of them confined to 
continent, 
SCROPHULARIACE./E. 
doubtful affinity, and G. strictifolia, and . 
Sprenzel has published as G. domingen- 
ig. sis, another species from Bertero’s West 
Indian plants. It has fortunately been seen 
and re-described by Martius, from whose 
character it appears to be a Eugerardia, 
not far from G. purpurea. 
Of the South American species the first — 
were described by Chamisso and Schlech- 
tendal in the 3rd volume of the Linnea 
from amongst Sello's South Brazilian plants, 
where these authors establish two sections, 
Dargeria, with exserted stamina, and Ge- 
rardia, with stamens shorter than the co- 
rolla. Martius, in his Nova Genera e! 
Species, vol. 3, pointed out the identity of 
Dargeria with Esterhazya, previously 
published by Mikan, but ina work inacces- 
sible to Botanists in general, and at the same 
time considering the G. brachyphylla and — 
genistifolia Cham. et Schlecht. to be con- 
geners to Virgularia of Ruiz and Pavon, 
and attaching little importance to the ex- 
sertion of the stamina in Esterhazya, re- 
established a genus, Virgularia, to consist 
of these two Gerardie, of the Esterhazye 
splendida, Mik., and the other Dargerie 
of Cham. and Schlecht., and of Ruiz and 
Pavon’s V. lanceolata and revoluta, and 
characterized chiefly by a coriaceous cap- 
sule with bifid valves and a double disse- 
piment. The same author published at the 
same time two new species, G. angustifo- 
. commu - 
nis and linarioides, Cham. et Schlecht., he 
—— 
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branaceous capsule, entire valves, and sim- 
ple dissepiment. Chamisso and Schlech- 
tendal, reverting to the group in the 8th 
vol. of the Linnea, admit the identity of 
Dargeria with Esterhazy4, but still con- 
sider the exsertion of the stamina as 8 
more essential character than the dehis- 
cence of the capsule. And, notwithstand- 
ing the great reliance I should generally 
place on Martius’s views, a careful exami- 
nation of as many species as I have been 
able to obtain in fruit, induces me to adopt 
in this instance the arrangement of the — 
editors of the Linnea. It appears to me 
impossible to separate G. linarioides from. 
G. genistifolia, moreover many true Ge- 
