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SCHIZANTHUS candidus. 
White Schizanthus. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Scrophulariacea:. 
SCHIZANTHUS. Supra vol. O.fol. 725. 
S. candidus ; foliis pinnatifidis, laciniis linearibus undulatis integris, corollse 
labio inferiore 3-lobo : laciniis lateralibus setaceis intermedia biloba 
acutissima, labio superiore alte bilobo. 
Botanists have raised this pretty genus from one, of which 
it originally consisted, to four, or, with two now to be added, 
to six. There also appears a seventh on our books, but that 
is not distinguishable from S. pinnatus. All of them are pro- 
bably, and five of them are certainly, in the country. A short 
enumeration of them will we trust be useful. 
The original S. pinnatus has interruptedly pinnated leaves, 
with crenated, pinnatifid, or toothed lobes, varying much in 
form. The flowers are lilac, with a purple lower lip, whose 
lateral lobes are at once falcate and spathulate. From this 
S. porrigens was distinguished by Dr. Graham, on account of 
its diverging flower-stalks, pale lower lip, and perhaps scarcely 
emarginate upper lip ; but as the same parcel of seed pro- 
duces both, and as they constantly come up intermixed in 
the seed* beds, they do not appear distinct. Other varieties, 
especially our S. pinjiatus humilis, are known. 
From this must be separated a Coquimbo plant, found by 
Bridges, (no. 1355), which, with somewhat smaller but similar 
flowers to S. pinnatus, has merely pinnatifid leaves, with 
lounded scarcely toothed lobes. The capsules are nearly twice 
as laigc as those of S. pinnatus. We call it S. pinnatijidus. 
. S. Hookeri is something like the two last, hut it is more 
hairy, and very much larger in all respects ; the divisions of 
the pinnate leaves are narrow, and regularly pinnatifid ; the 
lower lip of the corolla consists of very much acuminate 
bristle-pointed pieces, the lateral of which are setaceous and 
short ; the upper lip is almost cuspidately acuminate ; the 
colour of the flowers is lilac, with a yellow stain on the upper lip. 
