PURPLE SHELL FLOWER. 
tlons of the vegetable world. The plant cer- 
tainly wears a conchiferous appearance : and, 
to this circumstance it owes the appellation by 
which we have thought proper to distinguish 
it; as we received this drawing, with many 
other exadt delineations of subjects from New 
South Wales, unaccompanied by any name 
whatever. 
We may here remark, that it has repeatedly 
struck intelligent persons, on viewing our col- 
lection of drawings from the plants of New 
South Wales, that numbers of them, and this 
is certainly one, have a great resemblance to 
those fanciful flowers which are frequently 
manufaClured by the ingenious artificial iiorists 
of Europe; some of which were, formerly, 
very often composed of shells. 
