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ofPaderotay JVulfeniaf and Hsmlmcr'n. 97 The only species I have hitherto ascertained are the following:

1. H. fabulofa diandra, foliis oppofttis pinnatifidis, caule proftrato.

2. H. diffiifa, didynama, foliis alternis oppofitifque pinnatifidis, caule patulo,

3. H. moniana, diandra, foliis ovatis ferratis obtufiufculis, caule erefto.

4. H. urticifolia, didynama, foliis ovatis ferratis acutis, caule fufFruticofo, capfulis retufis. Celfia urticifolia. Curt. Mag. i.^j.

5. H. linearis, didynama, foliis lineari-Ianceolatis fubferratis, caule fufFruticofo, capfulis acutis. Celfia linearis. Jacq. Ic. rar. v. 3. /. 497. Curt. Mag. t. 210.

The three first I know only from specimens in the Linnsean herbarium. The diffufa is suspected by the younger Linnseus to be a variety of the fabulofay to which I can scarcely affent. It is not easy to fay which of the two rnay be the original Padercta bonce fpei. The specimen of Linnneus fo marked is the diffufa but he had not that before him when he wrote the dilfertation upon rare African plants, and it has certainly four stamina. If the number of stamina be constant, tQ fabulofa (which has but two) muft have been the real Pederota. The montana is sufficiently distinct in habit and character from both.

The two remaining species are natives of Peru, and have for fome time been commonly known in our gardens as species of Cdjia, but certainly without foundation. The error originated with Profenbr Ortega, and he has been followed by Jacquin and Curtis against their own judgment, for neither of thefe plants has the habit or character of any Celfia. It is to be lamented that fuch erroneous names should be ignorantly given and heedlcfsly retained, as it is difficult to eradicate them when once applied to any very popular and ornamental plant. Thus a moll beautiful Cliekne has been lately