THE LYRE- FLOWER. 



Dielytra spectabilis. 



PH" HIS extremely elegant plant bears 

 a variety of names, and we may 

 take our choice amongst them. 

 It is a Dielytra, a Dicl//trn , a 

 Dicentra, a Fa nutria, a Cory- 

 clalis. We prefer the first of 

 these generic designations, be- 

 cause it was adopted on the 

 occasion of the introduction of 

 the plant to this country, and 

 we are, therefore, accustomed 

 to it, and object to any change. 

 Moreover, the two styles on 

 which the original name is 

 founded are conspicuous fea- 

 tures of the flower, and there 

 is a pleasing euphony in dielytra that 

 commends it to the ear. 



The fame of this plant had gone out 

 into many lands where the plant itself had never been seen. 

 It was never seen alive by Linnaeus, but he described it from 

 dried specimens, and thus filled Europe with the hope of 

 obtaining and keeping it. It was Robert Fortune's good 

 fortune to meet with it in the north of China, and to 



