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sparingly covered with stem-clasping, taper-pointed, sinuated 

 leaves, and terminated by a few slender whitish flowers, which 

 are a little purple at the back. The foliage is small, the leaves 

 in no instance exceeding nine or ten inches in length, and 

 their flavour is that of Tobacco, but delicate. No seed was 

 produced, so that it is feared the plant at present is lost to the 

 gardens. It is figured in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 2484. 



XLVIII. Nicotiana nana. Lindley. 



Seeds of this new and singular species were presented by 

 J ames Bird, Esq. to the Society : they came from the Rocky 

 Mountains of North America, as of a kind from which the 

 Indians prepare the finest of their Tobacco. It is a very 

 small, delicate, annual plant, never growing more than two 

 or three inches high. The leaves are succulent, lanceolate, 

 ciliated, and slightly hairy ; among them a few white flowers, 

 like those of N. quadrivalvis, are produced. The calyx is 

 ciliated, and slightly viscid. The species is the smallest of 

 the genus, with the exception of a doubtful kind described 

 by Molina as a native of Chili, under the name of Nicotiana 

 minima. The plant is very short-lived. It is figured in the 

 Botanical Register, tab. 833. It has been called Nicotiana 

 nana, and is thus defined : 



N. nana; 2-3 uncialis, foliis lanceolatis pilosis radicalibus 

 quam flores solitarii longioribus, corolla calyce longiore: 

 laciniis obtusis. 



XLIX. Calceolaria scabiossefolia. Rdmer and Schultes. 

 Although this species of Calceolaria is annual in the open 

 garden, I think it probable that it is naturally perennial. In 

 the open border it produces no seed, but propagates with 



