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exhaled from the shrubs and herbs by which it is chap 
VIII. 
completely mantled, is quite as powerful as in the 
scented atmosphere of Rhodes, A few solitary 
segments repeatedly suhtlivided, till they become as fine as 
threads : the leaves on the stem have the same outline, but 
their seg^ments are more distant from each other. The stems 
are smooth ; and vary, in the specimens we saw, from a foot to 
more than two feet in height. The umbels have from eight to 
twelve rays, and measure from two to four inches over: their 
partial umbels are small, and crowded with flowers ; the petals 
yellow. We have called this very beautiful plant Laserpitium 
ELEGANS. Laserpitittm folds decompositis circumscriptione ob- 
longo-plu mi/or mibus, laciniis subsetaceis mvcrnnatis glabris ; 
petiolis glabris striatis ; involucri laciyiiis elovgatis upice tenuissi- 
niis ; umbellis hemisphtcricis. 
TIT. A non-descript species of yerbascum, from five to six fcetliigh, 
the stem erect, shrubby, and a little cottony, as well as the 
leaves, which are from an inch and a half to two inches or more 
in length : the lowermost attenuated downwards into long foot- 
stalks, the uppermost sessile. The bunches of flowers on the 
smaller plants eight or ten inches long, nearly simple, on large 
plants eighteen inches or more in length, very much branched, 
and twiggy; the flowers yellow, about an inch in diameter; 
the filaments woolly towards the base, and one of them always 
shorter than the rest. We have named this species Verbascum. 
STRicTUAi. Verbascum caule fruticoso erecto, foUis inferiorilus 
spatulato-ovatis petiolatis, superioribus ovato-lanceolatis obsoletis- 
sini€ dcnlatis integerrimisve sessilibus; omnibus pifis stellatis 
canescentibus, muticis; rucemo clongato; pcdictliis cahjce longi- 
oribus divaricatis. 
IV. A non-descrij)t shrubby species of Hypericum, with upright 
stems, from one to two feet high ; the largest leaves little mope 
than an inch in length : the flowers of a golden yellow, small, 
with petals double the length of the calyx. We have called it 
Hypericum virgatum. Hypericum fruticosum foribus trigynis, 
cali/cibus obtusis, glanduloso-ediutis . rncemis cauUbus gracilibus 
quintu})lh hrevioribus, termiiialibus : J'oliis iiUcrnodiis, longioribus 
erectn-pntuUs, punctatis, nudis, subtus glaucis ; inferioribus 
spatulato-oblongis ,- superioribus li)iearibus margine rcvolulis. 
