same pen, augmented to 340 species, of which more than 
520 are ranked under Soranum. And we cannot refrain 
from applauding the industry and ingenuity displayed in 
the internal organization of the group, in the view of ob- 
viating an idle subversion of a well-established genus, and 
the wanton incumbrance of new names. 
-We-have no account of the indigenous abode of-the 
present plant; which has been lately introduced by Mr. 
‘Anderson, the superintendant of the Garden of the Com- 
pany of Apothecaries at Chelsea, and was received by him 
frem some of the Parisian gardens. It belongs to the sec- 
tion of the genus comprising the species the calyx of which 
grows co-extensively with the enclosed germen, up to the 
complete maturity of the berry; and borders very closely 
on cornuium and rostratum, but differs from both, in being 
throughout of a much smaller size, and having the prickles 
of the stem deflectent; specially from the first in being 
annual, not perennial, by a stem with a roughish pile, 
not as in that smooth, and by smaller anthers; from 
the second by a compoundedly, not simply divided 
foliage; and in other points from each. Our plant was 
scarcely a foot and a half high, and covered with a pile of 
edicled stellately pencilled hairs, intermixed at certain 
points with others of a simple structure; the whole beset 
with numerous unequal sized prickles. Stem rigid, hollow, 
branched at the axils of the upper leaves. Leaves somewhat 
harsh, shining green through the hoar of the pubescence, 
about four inches in length, ovately oblong, interruptedly 
ssubbipinnatifid, waved or curled at the edge, prickly at 
the petioles and along the nerves on both surfaces; dodes 
deeply parted and sinuately indented; Jobules dilated and 
rounded at the end. Racemes short, few-flowered, lateral, 
and standing wide of the leaves. Calyx unequally echinated 
at the tube which keeps the fruit. Corolla yellow, nearly 
regular, about three parts of an inch in diameter, woolly on 
the outside, sinuately pentagonal, with short pointed cor- 
ners. <Anthers small for the section of the genus, the longer 
fifth subtended to the other 4, tinged with brown, inflectent 
at the ‘summit, Style equal to the longest anther. 
_ Requires the usual treatment of common tender annuals: 
The drawing was made in the autumn at the Chelsea garden, 
we 
a The corolla dissected, to show the tube and stamens. 5 The pistil, 
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