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dons. It was noticed by Lindley in his first edition of the Introduction to the Natural System, and called 
there Benthamia ; as however no reasons w'ere assigned for reducing the genus of Richard of that name, 
Lehman supposed it to be an oversight, and altered it to Amsinckia. Since then. Dr Lindley has bestowed 
the name Benthamia on an East Indian plant. This confusion is to be regretted ; and now that Richard’s 
genus has been ascertained to be Peristylus of Blume, it were better that Amsinckia should bear the appel- 
lation originally given to it. 
1. Cynoglossum grande {Dough); caule erecto glabro superne nudo, foliis petiolatis 
subtus pilosis, inferioribus maximis cordato-ovatis undulatis, superioribus oblongo-lan- 
ceolatis, racemis ebracteatis glabris pedunculatis paucifioris, calyce villoso. — Lehm. Pugill. 
2. p. 25. in Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 2. p. 85. — C. oflficinale. Hook, et Arn. supra, p. 152. 
2. C. penicillatum ; annuum dilFusum multicaule bast raniosum ubique pilis adpressis 
canescens, foliis remotis anguste linearibus, floribus solitariis in omnibus axillis brevissime 
pedicellatis, fructus nucibus lineari-oblongis patentissimis per paria subparallelo-approxi- 
matis disco planis marginibus membranaceis inflexis nudis apice ciliatis. 
This ought, perhaps, to be removed from the genus : it is so extremely allied to C. lateriflorun, Lam., or 
C. lineare, Ruiz et Pav. (Mathews, No. 332, Bridges, No. 253, and Cuming, No. 721), that it can only 
be distinguished by a close examination of the nuts, which, in the Chilian plant, are pectinately toothed all 
round the margin. Lehman places this last in Bindera, an arrangement to which we can. scarcely assent. 
Another plant of the same group is C. pilosum, Ruiz et Pav. (Mathews, No. 989, and Cuming, No. 1070). 
Ord. XLI. HYDROPHYLLE.3E. R. Brown. Benth. in Linn. Soc. Trans. 17. p. 272. 
HYDROPHYLLUM. Zinn. Benth. 1. c. 
Squama corollince 5, lineares, dorso adnatm, apice marginibusque liberse. Stamina longe exserta. Placenta 
maximse, dorso liberas, ovarium implentes, 2-ovulat8e. — Folia radicalia numerosa ; caulina pauca alterna 
lata pinnatim vel palmatim dissecta. Racemi scorpioideo-dichotomi vel capitati, ebracteati. 
1. H. capitatum {Dough) ; foliis pinnatisectis, segmentis inciso-dentatis subtus canes- 
centibus, floribus dense capitatis, laciniis calycinis lanceolato-linearibus ciliato-hispidis. 
— Benth. in Linn. Soc. Trans. 17. p. 273. Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 2. p. 78. 
The Californian specimens have quite a different appearance from those gathered at Fort Vancouver ; both 
are canescent on the under side of the leaves, from the presence of adpressed white rather soft hairs ; but these 
are much more numerous in the Californian form than in the other. The hairs on the branches and petioles 
are whitish and somewhat soft to the touch. In H. macrophyllum (Nutt. Indig. PI. Un. St. p. Ill), which 
Mr Bentham seems to think may be tbe same, tbe hairs on the stem, branches, and petioles, are longer and 
much more harsh ; the under side of the leaves is only sprinkled with a few bristly hairs, and these exist chiefly 
on the nerves and veins ; the flowers are either capitate (as in a specimen from Drummond found in the 
Alleghanies) or they form a corymbose compact cyme (as in the specimens from Dr Short), with the pedicels 
thick and stout, and shorter than the calyx ; divisions of the calyx attenuated from a broad ovate base. 
Nuttall’s species approaches, in some respects, to H. Virginicum, but that has a loose dichotomous inflores- 
cence, with slender pedicels that are often longer than the calyx ; the calyx-segments narrow-linear ; and 
the stem is much more free from hairs, often nearly quite glabrous. 
ELLISIA. Linn. — Benth. 1. c. 
Calyces exappendiculati. Squama corollina 10, breves, vel nullae. /Stawirntz, corolla subbreviora. Placenta 
