10 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
positum ; ergo genus Phialis (Spr. Gene- 
ra Plant. p. 631.), ut pote supervacaneum, 
delendum est. 
TaiPHysARIA, F. et M. Calyx tubu- 
losus, 4-fidus. Corolla personata: tubo 
iformi ; labio superiore indiviso subulato, 
inferiore tripartito, laciniis saccatis! Sta- 
mina didynama, omnia fertilia. Anthere 
lineares, muticz, l-loculares! Stylus sim- 
plex. Stigma oblongum, bilobum. Cap- 
sula DIDI, polysperma, | bilocularis, bi- 
Semina oblonga, aptera : testa scrobiculata 
nucleo arcte adherente. 
versicolor. Rhinanthacea annua, 
habitu Ondsvighucls folia elongata, ima 
basi dilatata semiamplexicaulia, apice pin- 
nati-lobata incisa, sparsa, infima sepe op- 
posita, floralia calyce vix longiora; flores 
es, solitarii, FRO corolla alba, 
dein rosea, tubus filiformis calyce duplo 
longior, labium serius rectum subula- 
tum, marginibus inflexis, inferius amplum 
e vesiculis compositum tribus obovatis, 
lacinula parva erecta apiculatis et in fauce 
rima longitudinali instructis; capsula ca- 
lyce inclusa; semina numerosa, parva, ni- 
gricantia.—Hab. in Nove Californie portu 
Bodega. 
Dr. Grisebach, of Berlin, is zealously : 
studying the Gentianee, with the view to 
publishing a monograph of that Order. In 
an inaugural Dissertation now before us, 
which that gentleman has recently publish- 
ed at Berlin, entitled ** Observationes que- 
dam de Gentianearum familie characte- 
ribus,” he has treated the subject in a 
masterly manner. Under the first head he 
has given the essential characters of the 
family. Under the second, entitled ** Mor- 
phological Observations," he has treated 
on the Organs of Nutrution (organa vege- 
tativa), and the Organs of Reproduction. 
Under the third head, on the natural affini- 
ties of the family. Under the fourth, of 
the genera to be excluded from the family :1 
! These ees e ^ 2. Mitreola, Br. 3. 
Mitrasacme, 4. Gelseminium, Juss. 5. Obo 
L. s E "Willd. 7. Rochefortia, Sw. 8. Sa. 
. imposita. 
while under the last head he gives a ** Cla- 
vis Generum Artificialis.” The following 
s his arrangement with the characters of 
d genera :— 
A. ZEstivatio corolle dextrorsum con- 
torta. Albumen cavum seminis explens. 
I. Placente cum endocarpio connate, in- 
deque semina ex ipsa valvularum super- 
ficie oriunda,—Anthere immutate. 
1. Gentiana, L. Filamenta basi equa- 
lia. Stigmata terminalia ovario vel stylo 
Fovee epipetale glandulifere 
0.—Glandule epipetale tantum in una ge- 
neris sectione. 
Ophelia, Don. Filamenta basi di- 
latata submonadelpha. Stigmata termina- 
lia ovario imposita. Glandule epipetale, 
nec squamula tecte, nec fimbriis cincte.— 
Corolla rotata absque corona. 
3. Pleurogyne,Eschh.ap. Cham. ( Loma- 
togonium a Br.). Stigmata suturis carpel- 
lorum imposita.—Filamenta basi «qualia. 
Corolla rotate, corona aucta, eglandulosa. 
tigma ovario imposi- 
Fovee epipetale, glan- 
dulifere, fimbriis cincte. Foliorum radi- 
calium vagine alterne. Corolla rotata 
absque corona. Filamenta basi equalia.— 
Species generis legitime, a me examinate, 
unt ; Sw. perennis, L., speciosa, Wall., cu- 
neata, Wall. pluribus mihi nondum obviis. 
lereeque auctorum species excludende. 
5. Anagallidium, M. Stigmata stylo 
ab ovario distincto imposita. Foveæ epi- 
petale, glandulifere squamula haud fim- 
briata tectze.—Folia omnia opposita. Co- 
rolla rotata, corona tenuissima fimbriata 
aucta. Filamenta basi æqualia. — Huc 
Swertia dichotome, L., forte Sw. tetrape- 
a, 
IL. Placente 2, 4 suturales, hinc demum 
libere (nunquam placenta demum unica, 
centralis, libera). Capsula vel 1-locu- 
laris vel valvulis introflexis bilocularis 
vel semi 2—4-locularis.—Corolla abs- 
que corona. 
(a.) Glandule epipetalz.— Corolla ro- 
tata. Anthere immutate. 
6. Agathotes, Don. Fovee epipetale, 
