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*CLINTONIA PULCHELLA. 
(pretty clintonia.) 
class. order, 
SYNGENESIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL order. 
LOBELIACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted, superior. Corolla consisting of two lips, lower wedge-shaped, 
divided into three lobes, upper two lobes. Stamens adhering near the base, slightly bending in- 
wards. Anthers connate. Ovarium a longish somewhat twisted triangular pod, one-celled. 
Capsule dry. 
Specific Character. — A trailing annual, disposed to branch. Branches smooth. Leaves oblong, 
obtuse, green", quite smooth. Flowers axillary and terminal, of a beautiful blue colour, the centre 
white tinged with yellow. 
Clintonia pulchella is one of the very many lovely annuals for which our 
flower-gardens are greatly indebted to the late lamented David Douglas, the me- 
lancholy termination of whose labours every admirer of nature has much cause 
deeply to regret. There are few, if any, of our new annuals that produce so 
striking and beautiful an effect, when planted in masses, as the one we are now de- 
scribing. As a rock plant, as an ornament for rustic flower baskets, or as a common 
border plant, it is worthy of our especial attention. 
Messrs. Leucombe, Pince, & Co., of the Exeter Nursery, who furnished us with 
the accompanying drawing, have this season cultivated it with great success, and 
seed of it may be procured from them. 
About the time we received the drawing from Messrs. Leucombe & Co., we were 
most obligingly favoured with a beautiful plant splendidly in flower, by Mr. Toward, 
the gardener at Bagshot Park, who has kindly furnished us with an account of his 
* In memory of his Excellency Mr. De Witt Clinton, late governor of the state of New York, an 
amiable, excellent man, and a distinguished patron of American investigation. He was the author of 
several ingenious treatises in different branches of natural history, and may be truly said to have deserved 
well of science, both in his own country and all the world. — Bot. Reg. 1241. 
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