104 JEschynomene hispida. 



in a season after a very careful search. The flowers are rarely more 

 expanded than represented in the plate, but when they do open 

 more completely, or when displayed by art, are very handsome, 

 being of a rich yellow, delicately veined by reticulated lines of car- 

 mine-red. Its root is annual, but has so much the sturdy appear- 

 ance of a perennial, that its character might be mistaken. 



Fig. 1. An upper portion of the plant, in flower. 



