﻿I/. W. Dii.lwyn, Esq. — Pembrokesh. A weed on the walls at Stockpole: Mr. 

 Milne. On a limestone wall about two miles from Pembroke : Mr. Adams. 

 Tenby: Countess of Aylesfobd. 



Annual. — Flowers in March and April. 



Root fibrous. Stems one or more, from 2 to 4 inches high, up- 

 right, leafy, branched, spreading, smooth, or finely downy. Leaves 

 dark green, elegantly pinnate, or rather very deeply pinnatifid, 

 with an odd lobe or leaflet. Flowers white, very minute, in a close 

 corymb, which lengthens out into a bunch or raceme as the fruit 

 ripens. Calyx and Corolla spreading. Sepals egg-shaped, con- 

 cave. Petals narrow, about as long as the sepals, generally entire, 

 but sometimes slightly notched at the tip. Pouches in longish 

 clusters, spreading, egg-shaped, compressed, at first entire, tipped 

 with the sessile stigma , but as they advance to maturity, the point 

 of each valve becomes slightly elongated or dilated, making a 

 small notch to contain the somewhat elevated stigma. Seeds 2 in 

 each cell. 



Sir J. E. Smith observes, “ that this plant has the pouch of a 

 Lepidium, according to the original idea of that genus, being 

 ‘ emarginate and many-seeded but the cotyledons being accurn- 

 bent (o=), not incumbent (o||), oblige us to take advantage of the 

 seeds not being solitary, as in Lepidium better defined, to separate 

 it, along with others whose seeds are still more numerous as a dis- 

 tinct, though not very natural, genus. See Hooker and De Can- 

 dolle.” It was designated Hutchinsia, by the celebrated Botanist, 

 Dr. R. Brown, in honour of the late Miss Hutchins, whose me- 

 mory will long be cherished by Botanists, and whose name has also 

 been conferred, by Professor Agardh, on a genus of marine plants ; 

 Conferva ; see Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. i. p. 334. 



Miss Hutchins’ botanical discoveries in the neighbourhood of 

 Belfast have often been celebrated, and her premature death is de- 

 plored by all who knew her. “ In her,” says Mr. Dawson 

 Turner, in his very beautiful work, Historia Fucorum, “ Botany 

 has lost a votary, as indefatigable as she was acute, and as success- 

 ful as she was indefatigable.” None but those who had the plea- 

 sure of her acquaintance, “ can appreciate her many amiable 

 qualities ; her liberality, her pleasure in communicating know- 

 ledge, her delight in being useful, the rapture she felt in tracing 

 the works of the Divine Hand, and the union iu her of those vir- 

 tues, which embellish and improve mankind.” 



“ In ev’ry season of the beauteous year 

 Her eye was open, and with studious love 

 Read the divine Creator in His works. 



Chiefly in thee, sweet Spring, when ev’ry nook 

 Some latent beauty to her wakeful search 

 Presented, some sweet flow’r, some virtual plant. 



In ev’ry naliv'e of the hill and vale 



She found attraction, and where beauty fail’d, 



Applauded odour or commended use.” — Ilunuis. 



