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1. Nicotiana rustica. Linn. 



1. Salpiglossis ? prostrata; sparsim glanduloso-puberula, caule prostrato ramoso, foliis 

 oblongo-spathulatis integris, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris folio multoties brevioribus. 



Radix crespitosa, perennis ? Caules prostrati, teretes, filiformes, ramos oppositos alternosve subsimpliccs 

 utrinque emittentes, glanduloso-pulveruli. Folia anguste oblonga, obtusa, basi longe attenuata, glandulosa, 

 puberula, subenervia, parva, vix semiunciam longa. Peclunculi axillares, solitarii, uuiflori, breves, semilineam 

 longi. Calyx puberulus, quinquefidus, sinubus latis ; laciniai elongatse, foliacece, lineari-oblongse, obtusa; : 

 tubus campanulatus, Iaciniis duplo brevior, e sepalis dorso viridibus margine membranaceis constans. Corolla 

 purpurascens, tenera, marcescens, puberula, calycera paullum superans, infundibuliformis, irregulariter quin- 

 queloba. Stamina quatuor, fertilia, glabra, duo lougiora, cum quinto interdum fertili scepiusve sterili : 

 Antherce cordato-subrotunda;, longitudinaliter dekiscentes. Stylus glaber, versus apicem crassior; Stigma 

 subpeltatura, planiusculum, medio linea exaratum. Capsula ovata, bilocularis, bivalvis, valvis apice subbi- 

 fidis, dissepimentum a valvis demum liberum utrinque placentiferum : placenta planiuscula. Semina minuta, 

 numerosa, subrotunda, scrobioulata. Albumen carnosum. Embryo teres, la;viter curvatus, albus, longitudine 

 fere seminis, centralis ; radicula ad hilum spectans : cotyledones marginibus ad embryonis tlexuram, ideoque 

 accumbentes. 



This certainly belongs to the same genus as S. linearis and S. integrifolia. Hook. Bot. Mag-, t. 3113; but 

 they differ from the other of the Chilian species by the foliaceous lobes of the calyx, thereby approaching' 

 Petunia and Nierembergia: indeed, the latter of these two species is Nierembergia phanicea of Don, while 

 the former appears to be N. intermedia, Graham, in Ed. N. Phil. Journ. n. 27. p. 175. From Nierembergia, 

 even although it be united with Petunia, as Don proposes, these plants appear distinct by the inflated tube 

 of the corolla, which has scarcely any limb. Lindernia Montividensis, Spreng. Syst. v. 2. p. 769, of which 

 Chamisso and Schlechtendal remark, (Linna;a, v. 3. p. 24,) " planta e Solanearum ordine, Nierembergia 

 affinis," is scarcely distinguishable from the present individual. 



Ord. XXXII. SCROPHULARINE^:. Juss. 

 1. Scoparia dulcis. Linn. 



1. Linaria Canadensis. Spr. — Antirrhinum Canadense. Linn. 



1. Scrophularia Californica ; caule aeutanguloglabro parte florifero glanduloso-pubescente, 

 foliis oblongo-triangularibus acutis basi cordatis duplicato-serratis supra glabris subtiis parce 

 glanduloso-pubescentibus penninerviis, thyrso apbyllo, Iaciniis calycinis ovatis acutis mucro- 

 natis margine angustissime membranaceis, stamine quinto rudimentoso, capsula ovoideo- 

 conica. — Cham, et Schlecht. in Linncea, v. 2. p. 585. 



As remarked by Chamisso and Schlechtendal, this species approaches very closely to the Europa?an 

 nodosa: according to these authors the affinity is less with S. Marilandica, although to us it appears 

 extremely allied to that species. From S. nodosa, the shape of the calycine segments and of the capsule 

 will readily distinguish it. Our specimens have no root. 



1. Mimulus guttatus; glabriusculus, caule quadrangulari basi radicante, foliis inferioribus 

 petiolatis ovato-oblongis obtusis superioribus subsessilibus subrotundo-ovatis basi subcordatis 

 plurinerviis inaequaliter dentatis, pedunculis pubescentibus bractea sessili longioribus, calyce 

 campanulato pubescente corollaque guttata! maculatis. De Cand. Cat. Hort. Monsp. p. 127. 

 — M. luteus. Bot. Mag. t. 1501. 



Although undoubtedly a distinct species from the Chilian M. luteus, it is by no means easy to point out a 

 constant distinctive character. In M. guttatus the size of the flowers is usually much smaller, the peduncles 

 are pubescent and shorter; but we do not find them so short as to verify the assertion that they are shorter 



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