SO Tradescantia Virginica. 



J unci, into a natural family which he has called Commelinea — an ar- 

 rangement which removes the incongruous union of plants with such 

 beautiful and conspicuous corollas as this, with those which have 

 merely calices. According to the principles of Jussieu, the superb 

 corolla of this plant must be considered as a calix, which in reason 

 it never can be estimated. Brown calls them, as does Linnseus, petals. 



Fig. l. Represents a portion of the plant, the size of nature. 



2. A stamen. 



3. The pistil. 



