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CHELONE LYONIL 
(MR. LYOn's CHELONE.) 
CLASS> ORDER. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
SCROPHULARIACEvE. 
Generic Character. — Vide p. 149 of the present volume. 
Specific Character. — Plant an herbaceous perennial. Stems erect, from eighteen inches to two feet 
high, slightly branched. Leaves petiolate, cordately-ovate, acuminate, serrated, wrinkled on the 
surface. Spikes terminal, with smaller lateral clusters of blossoms. Flowers large, purplish pink. 
Synonyme. — Chelone major. 
Similar reasons to those which we assigned for supplying a figure of Chelone 
obliqua at p. 149 of this volume, strengthened by the still greater showiness of the 
species now brought forward, have induced us to admit the accompanying plate. 
Like the plant just mentioned, C. Lyonii has no novelty to render it attractive, nor 
is it a species which persons of the most circumscribed gardens may not readily 
obtain and preserve. If handsomeness and real merit, however, can commend any 
floral object to the regard of the inspector, it assuredly has enough of these to 
establish it as a decided and permanent favourite. 
So superior is it in the size of its flowers to any other Chelone, that it has been 
appropriately designated C. major by some authors ; and the copiousness in which 
these are borne, the existence of smaller clusters at the base of the central spike, 
the breadth and beauty of the foliage, and the somewhat dwarfer character of the 
whole plant, confirm and vindicate any preference we have manifested. Its 
distinctness from C. obliqua, however much a glance at the form and colour of their 
flowers when growing near each other might deceive the unobservant into a 
supposition of identity, will be perfectly obvious from an examination of the two 
figures. 
For the general cultivator, it will be sufficient to say, that C. obliqua has 
weaker stems, with a greater distance between the joints, — much narrower leaves, 
