raising plants in the nursery at Monkswood Grove, Ayr. In 
cultivation, the S. parvula attains to twice the size of the in- 
dividuals here represented, which are native specimens, and has 
also many branches springing from the base of the stem. 
This species is doubtless very nearly allied, as Michaux 
remarks, to S. minor of our own country : in the latter plant, 
however, the leaves are more decidedly heart-shaped at the 
base, they have also a short petiole, and the whole herb is but 
slightly pubescent, never glandular ; added to which, its flowers 
are of a very different figure, and their colour is a pale pink, 
spotted on the lower lip. 
Fig. 1. Flower. Fig. 2. Advanced calyx, enclosing the almost fully formed 
fruit. Fig. 3. Portion of one of the stamens. Fig. 4. Pistil.— more 
or less magnified. 
