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dons. It was noticed by Lindley in his first edition of the Introduction to the Natural System, and called 

 there Benthamia ; as however no reasons were assigned for reducing the genus of Richard of that name, 

 Lehman supposed it to be an oversight, and altered it to Amsinchia. Since then, Dr Lindley has bestowed 

 the name Benthamia on an East Indian plant. This confusion is to be regretted ; and now that Richard's 

 genus has been ascertained to be Peristylus of Blume, it were better that Amsinchia should bear the appel- 

 lation originally given to it. 



1. Cynoglossum grande (Dougl.); caule erecto glabro superne nudo, foliis petiolatis 

 subtus pilosis, inferioribus maximis cordato-ovatis undulatis, superioribus oblongo-lan- 



ceolatis, racemis ebracteatis glabris pedunculatis paucifloris, calyce villoso Lehm. Pugill. 



2. p. 25. in Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 2. p. 85. — C. officinale. Hook, et Am. supra, p. 152. 



2. C. penicillatum ; annuum diffusum multicaule basi ramosum ubique pilis adpressis 

 canescens, foliis remotis anguste linearibus, floribus solitariis in omnibus axillis brevissime 

 pedicellatis, fructus nucibus lineari-oblongis patentissimis per paria subparallelo-approxi- 

 matis disco planis marginibus membranaceis inflexis nudis apice ciliatis. 



This ought, perhaps, to be removed from the genus : it is so extremely allied to C. lateriflorun, Lam., or 

 C. linear e, Ruiz et Pav. (Mathews, No. 332, Bridges, No. 253, and Cuming, No. 721), that it can only 

 be distinguished by a close examination of the nuts, which, in the Chilian plant, are pectinately toothed all 

 round the margin. Lehman places this last in Rindera, an arrangement to which we can scarcely assent. 

 Another plant of the same group is C. pilosum, Ruiz et Pav. (Mathews, No. 989, and Cuming, No. 1070). 



Ord. XLI. HYDROPHYLLE^S. B. Brown. Benth. in Linn. Soc. Trans. 17. p. 272. 



HYDROPHYLLUM. Linn. Benth. I. c. 



Squama corollince 5, lineares, dorso adnatae, apice marginibusque libera?. Stamina longe exserta. Placenta; 

 maxima?, dorso libera?, ovarium implentes, 2- ovulata?. — Folia radicalia nnmerosa ; caulina pauca alterna 

 lata pinnatim vel palmatim dissecta. Racemi scorpioideo-dichotomi vel capitati, ebracteati. 



1. H. capitatum (Dougl.) ; foliis pinnatisectis, segmentis inciso-dentatis subtus canes- 

 centibus, floribus dense capitatis, laciniis calycinis lanceolato-linearibus ciliato-hispidis. 

 — Benth. in Linn. Soc. Trans. 17. p. 273. Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 2. p. 78. 



The Californian specimens have quite a different appearance from those gathered at Fort Vancouver ; both 

 are canescent on the under side of the leaves, from the presence of adpressed white rather soft hairs ; but these 

 are much more numerous in the Californian form than in the other. The hairs on the branches and petioles 

 are whitish and somewhat soft to the touch. In H. macrophyllum (Nutt. Indig. PI. Un. St. p. Ill), which 

 Mr Bentham seems to think may be the same, the hairs on the stem, branches, and petioles, are longer and 

 much more harsh ; the under side of the leaves is only sprinkled with a few bristly hairs, and these exist chiefly 

 on the nerves and veins ; the flowers are either capitate (as in a specimen from Drummond found in the 

 Alleghanies) or they form a corymbose compact cyme (as in the specimens from Dr Short), with the pedicels 

 thick and stout, and shorter than the calyx ; divisions of the calyx attenuated from a broad ovate base. 

 Nuttall's species approaches, in some respects, to H. Virginicum, but that has a loose dichotomous inflores- 

 cence, with slender pedicels that are often longer than the calyx ; the calyx-segments narrow-linear ; and 

 the stem is much more free from hairs, often nearly quite glabrous. 



ELLISIA. Linn Benth. I. c. 



CMyces exappendiculati. Squama; corollince 10, breves, vel nulla;. Stamina corolla subbreviora. Placenta 



