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they roll up and perish. But they appear in succession, so 

 that their ephemeral beauty is perpetuated for many weeks. 

 It is singularly unfortunate that all attempts to obtain 

 seeds from this plant, or even to propagate it, have been at- 

 tended with very indifferent success ; so that it has now be- 

 come extremely rare. It has been figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine, tab. 2379, in Dr. Hooker's Exotic Flora, tab. 74, 

 and in the Botanical Register, tab. 752. The specific name 

 was given in compliment to the late John Walker, Esq. of 

 Southgate, Vice President of the Horticultural Society at the 

 time of his decease, a gentleman whose memory will be long 

 cherished by all those who had the happiness to know 

 him, and by every lover of Botanical Science. To him the 

 Society was particularly indebted for numerous acts of kind- 

 ness and attention during the long period which he conti- 

 nued a Fellow, and a Member of the Council, 



LH. CEnothera tenella. Cavanilles. 

 An annual hardy plant with narrow glaucous leaves, nearly 

 simple decumbent stems, and small purple flowers with a dark 

 eye, formed by the deep colour of the stigmas and anthers. 

 A native of Chili, for which the Society is also indebted to 

 Mr. Place. The figure in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 2424, 

 gives no idea of the really beautiful flowers of this species. 

 It is not improbable, as suggested in that work, that the 

 (E. Romanzovii of Hornemann, and the continental gar- 

 dens, may be the same as (E. tenella. But the CE. Ro- 

 manzovii, published in the Botanical Register, tab. 562, is not 

 different from (E. purpurea. I had many opportunities of 

 observing the plant which was, in 1821, called Romanzovii, 



