﻿PLATE DLL 

 LOPEZIA CORONATA. 



Coronet-flowering Lopezia. 



CLASS I. ORDER I. 



MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. One Chive. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 

 nrx 4-phyllus. Corolla 5-petala, inaequalii. || Empalement 4-leaved. Blossom 5-petaled, un- 

 Capsula4-locularis, 4-valvis, polysperma. equal. Capsule 4-celled, 4-valved, many 



'' seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 

 nplicibus, adscenden- jj Lopeiia with long, simple, ascending branches. 

 Leaves nearly ovate, pointed, toothed, and 

 j decurrentibus : floribus ax* || shining, with decurrent footstalks. Flowers 



growing from the axillae of the leaves, and 

 terminate the branches in umbels. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The empalement. 



2. The chives and pointal, with the lower petal magnified. 



3. The capsule cut transversely. 



ihe l^pezia coronata is a hardy little annual, of recent introduction, and a lively addition to this 

 short genus, which at present contains but two species besides the one now figured. We have seen 

 them all three in fine bloom in several collections. Our figure represents a branch from a plant in the 

 conservatory of the Countess de Vandes, where we observed the side petals of many of the flowers of 

 a pure white at the ends, which gave them a very singular and different appearance from plants of the 

 same description we have seen elsewhere : and Mr. Fordyce the botanic gardener informs me it was 

 always the character of his plant, after it had been some time in flower, for the large petals to acquire a 

 white a Pt prance, as if bleached, previous to their going out of bloom. We have therefore left one flower 

 in t at state m our specimen, to delineate the variation incidental to the plant from which our figure 



