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the place of this kind cannot be decided with certainty, 

 but it is probably a species distinct from M. polifolia, from 

 which there is an abundance of characters to separate it. But 

 without seeing its flowers, it is better to allow it to remain 

 provisionally with the species to which it has hitherto been 

 referred. For the plants in the Garden the Society is in- 

 debted to His Grace the Duke of Bedford. 



ANNUAL PLANTS. 

 XXXVIII. Castilleja septentrionalis. Lindhy. 

 A single individual of this exceedingly rare plant, which has 

 been called Bartsia pallida by American botanists, sprang up 

 among the earth of some turfs containing plants which had been 

 sent to the Society through the hands of Edward Moore, 

 Esq. from Labrador in 1823, by the Missionaries stationed 

 there. It was about a foot high, with narrow, lanceolate, scat- 

 tered, smooth, sessile, spreading, three-nerved, dark green 

 leaves, tinged with red. The flowers were in a pale yellowish- 

 green imbricated spike. The bracteae large, oblong, somewhat 

 truncate, five-toothed at end, of a pale yellowish green, slightly 

 tinged with red, and with three prominent veins. The calyx 

 was hairy. Corolla bright green, and shorter than the bracteae, 

 its lower lip very small, somewhat inflated, and trifid. Anthers 

 discharged an orange-coloured pollen from just under the end 

 of the upper lip of the corolla. Stigma bright green, capitate, 

 two-lobed, longer than the anthers. From a careful inspection 

 of the flowers of this plant, I do not doubt that it is, as M- 

 Kunth has observed, referable to the genus Castilleja ; but 

 it is singular that Mr. Nuttall should have retained it under 

 Bartsia, notwithstanding his having separated Bartsia coccinea 



