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COLLINSIA grandiflora. 
Largeflowered Collinsia. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. ScROPHULARINES. 
COLLINSIA. Supra, fol. 1082. 
C. grandiflora; caule erecto ramoso, pedunculis verticillatis floribus brevi- 
oribus, corollz laciniis dilatatis retusis, calyce glabro corolla dupld 
breviore. : 
C. grandiflora. Supra, fol. 1082 in textu, sine charactere. 
Caulis erectus, ramosus, palmaris pedalisve, pubescens. Folia inferiora 
spatulata, superiora oblongo-linearia, glaberrima, nunc integerrima, nunc 
denticulata. Flores verticillat, numerosi, speciosissimi. Pedunculi glabri, 
jiliformes, floribus duplo breviortbus. Calyx glaber, lacintis acuminatissimis, 
quasi aristatis, coroll4 duplo brevioribus. Corolla tubo et labio superiore 
pallidé purpureis, inferiore intense cyaneo, laciniis dilatatis, crenulato-crispis, 
retusis, wnferiore medié minutd. Obs. tn icone, errore pictoris, margo corolle 
integer pro crenulato-crispo malé supponitur. 
One of the most beautiful hardy annuals with which we. 
are acquainted, covering the ground with a carpet, as it 
were, of blue, and purple, and white, during the months of 
June and July. ; 
A native of the dry banks of the Columbia river, at the 
distance of an hundred miles and more from the ocean, 
in which situations its seeds were gathered by Mr. Douglas, 
and’ transmitted to the Horticultural Society, in whose 
garden our drawing was made in June last, when it 
flowered for the first time. 
We learn from the enterprising traveller to whom we 
are indebted for this and a multitude of equally important 
plants, and whose safe return to England, after surmount- 
ing perils and fatigue of no common kind, we are truly 
