332 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Impatiens. 
Mr. Whately. (Pastures about Longdale, near Oxton, plentiful. Mr. 
Gouch. In the road between Settle and Malham Tarn, Yorkshire. Mr. 
Caley. On Ben Lawers and Craig Cailleach. Mr. Brown. In Bolden 
Bourn, Northumberland. Mell Fell and Ennersdale, and Borrowdale. 
Mr. Winch. Arthur’s Seat, and Pentland Hills. Hooker. Abundant in 
fields near Cernioge, North Wales. B. Botfield, Esq. Road side between 
Holywell and St. Asaph. Mr. H. Christy. Fields about Buxton and 
Castleton covered with it in May. 
Nearly allied to this species is V. amcena of Scotch Botanists. Its flower is 
large, and, according to Mr. Winch, always purple, never changing by 
cultivation. He also remarks that in Teesdale V. lutea varies from pur¬ 
ple to yellow ; but in Arkendale, in Yorkshire, it is always of the latter 
colour, yet none of these varieties put on the appearance of V. amcena. 
This elegant plant is found near the foot of Ben Lawers; and in the 
herbarium of the author are specimens greatly resembling it communi¬ 
cated by Mr. Brown from the same station, also from Craig Cailleach, so 
long ago as 1793; and then suspected to be a new species. By Prof. 
Hooker it is identified with V. lutea ; while that accurate observer Mr. 
Robson refuses specific distinction even to V. lutea , stating, (from culti¬ 
vation,) that not merely the colour of the blossom varies, but that the 
ciliate character of the leaves is inconstant. He therefore considers it 
only a var. V. tricolor. 
In gardens what appears to be V. amcena flourishes in dense patches, dis¬ 
playing a profusion of large, rather palid, blue flowers through the 
months of May and .Tune, and, if we mistake not, again in the au¬ 
tumn. E.) P. May—Sept.* 
IMPA'TlENS.f Calyx two-leaved: Bloss. irregular: Nectary 
hood-like: Stam. cohering : Caps. superior, five-celled, 
opening elastically into five spiral valves. 
I. noli-me-tan'gere. Fruit-stalks many-flowered, solitary: leaves 
egg-shaped: stem swoln at the joints. 
{E. Bot. 937. E.)— FI. Dan. 582— Riv. Tetr. 214. Impatiens. — Dod. 659. 2 
— Ger. Em. 446. ( erroneously printed 450.) 4— Park. 296. 5 — Trag. 295 
— Lonic. i. 99. 4— Col. Ecphr. i. 150. 1— Barr. 1197— Gars. 414— Ger. 
361 3 —Lob. Adv. 135, Ic. i. 318. 1— J. B. ii. 908. 
( Stem about a foot high, succulent, somewhat pellucid, fragile. Cal. leaves 
yellowish green. E.) When the seeds are ripe, upon touching the cap¬ 
sule , they are suddenly thrown out with considerable force. Blossoms 
four to five, large, yellow; the lateral petals spotted with orange; by 
cultivation they change to pale yellow or purplish. 
{Yellow Balsam. E.) Quick-in-hand. Touch-me-not. Moist shady 
places and banks of rivulets ; chiefly in the north, but rare. Banks of 
Winandermere near Ambleside, near Rydal Hall, and other places in 
Westmoreland. By the side of Coniston Lake, Lancashire. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. Near the foot-path leading from the Inn at Ambleside up the 
* This plant has usually been considered V. grandiflora of Linnaeus, but Dr. Stokes, in 
the second edition of With. Arr., showed with how little (propriety ; and Dr. Afzelius has 
since informed me that our plant was entirely unknown to Linnaeus, whose V. grandiflora 
bears a much larger flower, and differs both in the spur and in the stipulae. 
t (Alluding to the singular irritability of the capsule. E.) 
