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up from dried specimens, in consequence of which much un- 

 certainties now experienced in referring the species, which have 

 been raised in this country lately, to any of the kinds already 

 published. Those now in the gardens are two, both obtained 

 from a second collection of seeds presented to the Society in 

 1823 by Mr. Place. The first of these plants has been de- 

 scribed as a new species in the Botanical Register, tab. 667, 

 under the name of L. tricolor, but has been referred by both 

 Dr. Sims, in Botanical Magazine, tab. 2372, and Dr. Hooker, in 

 the Exotic Flora, tab. 83, to the L. nitida of Lamarck. If the 

 reasoning from which this conclusion has been obtained should 

 appear to others, as it does to me, sufficiently satisfactory, the 

 name of L. tricolor must be abandoned. It is a branching, 

 upright plant, with pale green, lobed, stinging leaves, and 

 bears great numbers of yellow flowers of a most curious con- 

 formation. This kind is in several collections. 



The second species is at present in no other collection than 

 that of the Society: it has been published, with a figure 

 taken from the only plant which was in the Garden, in the 

 Botanical Register, tab. 785, under the name of L. acanthi- 

 folia of Lamarck ; but independently of the greater stature 

 of that species, which is said to be as high as a man, there are 

 other reasons why it should be considered different from the 

 plant now in question ; it has therefore been proposed to 

 name the latter after Mr. Place, whose name has been so 

 often mentioned in this Report, and to whom the Society lies 

 under many obligations for the great liberality with which 

 he has communicated his fine importations of Chilian seeds, 

 of which it may be truly said, that they either have been 

 selected with more good taste and discrimination than any 

 others which the Society has received, or that the country 



