Notes from Canada

guishing characters of this little plant. It is more humble than Nemacladus in that it spreads upon the ground, rising little above its surface, but forming depressed tufts; but its white flowers are comparatively conspicuous. Besides its peculiar habit and its rosulate tufted spatulate leaves, the new plant differs from Nemnacladus mainly in its almost rotate and equally 5-cleft corolla, which is shorter than the foliaceous lobes of the calyx; in the tube of the latter being adnate up to the summit of the ovary; and in the dehiscence of the capsule by an operculum, the short conical apex separating by circumcision. There is already a genus Parishia, an East Indian tree; so this little herb must take the name in an altered and diminutive form. The specific name might have been chosen from the desert habitation or some characteristic feature of the plant; but it is fitting to associate it with the name of the State in which the Messrs. Parish reside, and the botany of which they have most largely helped to make known.-AsA GRAY.