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than any coordinal species, and hence it may be that it passes under 

 the strangely inappropriate name Chatham-Islands Lily. It seems 

 to require absolutely a moist air, if not also a somewhat saline soil, 

 to be maintained in cultivation. 



As a genus Myosotidium ranks near Cynoglossum, to which it 

 was simultaneously referred by Dr. Hooker and the author in his 

 final notes communicated to the Victorian Institute. But as long 

 as some allied plants are upheld in separate generic positions and 

 thus Linn^'s original definition of Cynoglossum remains abandoned, 

 Myosotidium must be regarded, as the venerable Sir Will. Hooker 

 well suggests, as of generic importance, a position to which moreover 

 its strikingly peculiar habit gives it additional claims. 



It seems that the leaves are attaining in the native locality still 

 much larger dimensions than those recorded on this occasion. So 

 ornamental a plant and one moreover not without its uses, might 

 advantageously be transplanted to other shores, and might especially 

 be naturalized on those of Australia and New Zealand. 



PRIMULACE^. 



Samolos bepens. 



Persoon, Synops. Plantar, i. 171 (1805) ; 8. litoraJis, E. Brown, Prodrom. Fl. 

 Nov. HoU. 428 (1810) ; Loddig. Cabin, t. 435 ; Duby in Cand. Prodrom. 

 viii. 73; Nees in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. i. 387; Sohleohtend. Linnsea, xx. 617 ; 

 J. Hook. Flor. Not. Zeel. i. 207 ; Flor. Tasm. i. 301 ; S. junoeus, K. Br. 1. c. 

 429 ; S. ambiguua, E. Br. I. c. ; S. campanuloides, E. Br. accords to Eoem. 

 & Sclralt. Syst. Veget. v. 2 ; Duby in Cand. Prodr. viii. 73 ; S. parviflorus, 

 Wees in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. i. 337 ; Campanula porosa, Thvinb. in Linn, 

 fil. Suppl. Plant. 142 ; Prodr. Flor. Capens. 39 ; Skeffieldia repens, Forst. 

 Charact. Gen. p. 18, t. 9 ; S. incana, LabUl. Plant. Nov. HoU. Specim. i. 40, 

 t. 54; Lysimachia sedoides, Lehm. Index Sem. Hort. Hamburg. 



Stems erect, ascendent or prostrate, generally rigid, often peren- 

 nial and woody towards the base, sometimes very tall ; root-fibres 

 soon valid ; leaves somewhat fleshy, subulate- or lanceolate- linear or 

 lanceolate, those of the stem occasionally those of the root always 

 spatulate or obovate, the former sometimes reduced to minute linear- 

 semilanceolate or deltoid very distant bract-like scales or even totally 

 obliterated, not rarely as well as the stems and branches rough from 

 prominent dots ; pedicels rather valid, at last from as long to twice 

 as long as the calyx, seldom longer ; bracts lanceolate- and linear- 

 subulate, often conspicuous and leaf-like ; flowers large ; teeth of the 

 flowering calyx semikmoeolate or suhulate-semilanceolate, longer 



