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branthus a little nearer to Phycella, by removing 
the difference of a trifid stigma ; but in both the 
specimens of this plant the style is recurved, and 
the division of the stigma in this order is very 
variable. 
3. Pratensis. — Poeppig. Fragm. Syn. p. 5. Leaves 
linear, glaucous, with the back rounded ; scape a 
foot or more, 2-3-flowered ; perianth scarlet, yellow 
at the base ; tube scarcely any ; limb two inches, 
campanulate, with unequal segments, the upper 
widest ; faucial scales six, serrate ; filaments de- 
clined. Flowers in November in the meadows of 
Antuco in S. Chili. This plant seems to me allied 
to speciosus, except in leaf, which appears to have 
a different character. Dr. Poeppig calls it “ ge- 
nus Placea, Miers,” alluding, I suppose, to the 
faucial scale, but they would be insufficient to dis- 
tinguish it except as a species. Placea (Miers) is 
a mere name, without any definition or description 
of the plant for which it was intended. 
4. Kermesinus. — Am. kermesina. Bot. Reg. 19. 1638. 
Leaves 3-16ths wide, obtuse, bright green, slightly 
glaucous (underneath ?) peduncles unequal, about 
1£ inch, perianth about long, deep crimson, 
ribbed at the base with yellow, suberect; filaments, 
“ two much shorter than the rest” imply that the 
upper sepaline is prolonged, the longest rather 
more than half the length of the perianth ; style 
one-third longer than the filaments ; stigma trifid, 
recurved. Brazil ; I doubt not, S. Brazil. 
5. Nemoralis. — Specimina ex Rio Grande in sylvis 
prope flumen (Yazeguay?) Tweedie. Herb. Hooker, 
absque foliis. Scapo 4-unc. trifloro, spatha acu- 
minata 2-unc. pedunculis inseq. subbiunc. perian- 
thio kermesino biunciali, anguste campanulato, vix 
stylo semunciam longiore ; stylo fil. vix superante, 
stigm. trifido. This flower, called bright scarlet by 
Tweedie, but seeming bright crimson, was found in 
the woods by some river which cannot be deciphered 
(the Yazeguay, I believe), near Rio Grande. It 
comes very near to kermesinus, and is probably a 
variety of it, but the specimens agree in a 4-inch 
