GERARDIA TENUIFOLIA-SLENDERLEAVED GERARDIA. 



LINN. CLASS DIDYNAMIA ; ORDER, AGIOSPERMIA, 

 NATURAL ORDER, SCROPHULARIACE.iE. 



This is an exceedingly delicate and graceful flower, bloom- 

 ing in the month of September, and delighting in a dry soil, 

 being found in abundance on the sides of rocks among the 

 Highlands, where there would scarcely appear to be sufficient 

 earth to afford it a foothold. It seldom exceeds eight or nine 

 inches in height, and is one of the most graceful varieties of its 

 species. 



Its calyx is five-cleft, or five-toothed ; corolla sub-campa- 

 nulate, unequally five-lobed ; segments rounded ; capsule, two- 

 celled, dehiscent at the top ; leaves linear, acute, scabrous ; 

 peduncles axillary, longer than the flowers ; teeth of the calyx 

 acute. 



VIEW NEAR FORT MONTGOMERY. 



The view accompanying this plate was taken from Fort 

 Montgomery, looking towards the north-east. The most 



