The rupture-wort (Herniaria glabra) was so called from its fancied remedial powers, and the scabious in allusion to the scaly pappus of its seeds, which led to its use in leprous diseases.

GLABRA (syn Ae.

glabra flore-pleno (syn Ae.

E. GLABRA (syn E. reflexus).From Japan.

There is a form having the leaves margined with pale yellow, and known under the name of E. glabra variegata.

R. GLABRA (syns R. caroliniana, R. coccinea, R. elegans, and R. sanguinea).Smooth or Scarlet Sumach.

R. glabra laciniata (Fern Sumach) is a distinct and handsome variety, with finely cut elegant leaves, and a dwarf and compact habit of growth.

Herniaria Glabra.

The young shoots of R. Cotinus are clothed with round leaves which change to bright crimson and orange, surmounted with fluffy pink seed-vessels, while R. Glabra Laciniata resembles a tree fern.

C. nigro-fuscus pilis albis aspersus capite thoraceque punctatis linea media glabra divisis, scutello cinereo, elytris rugosis lineis quatuor subelevatis, corpore subtus pedibusque cinereo-sericeis.

S. fulvo-piceus capite angusto, labro palpisque testaceis, vertice canaliculato, thorace inaequaliter rugoso eminentia media ovali glabra tribusque aliis utrinque inconspicuis, elytris bidentatis lineis subelevatis interstitiisque punctatis macula media suturali testacea antice subemarginata, antennis subtus villosis articulis apice haud spinosis, corpore pedibusque piceis femoribus incrassatis.

Testa octovalvis glabra, valvis tuberculatis, ligamento glabro laevi.

Bractea exterior lanceolata breve acuminata planiuscula erecta, extus villosa intus glabra, post lapsum fructus persistens: duae laterales angusto-naviculares, acutissimae, carina lateribusque villosis, longitudine fere exterioris, simul cum perianthio fructifero, separatim tamen, dilabentibus.

Linnaeus said long ago, "Nescio quae facies laeta, glabra plantis Americanis: I know not what there is of joyous and smooth in the aspect of American plants"; and I think that in this country there are no, or at most very few, Africanae bestice, African beasts, as the Romans called them, and that in this respect also it is peculiarly fitted for the habitation of man.

Perchance there will appear to the traveller something, he knows not what, of laeta and glabra, of joyous and serene, in our very faces.

GLYCYRRHIZA glabra.

HERNIARIA glabra.

422 Chelone glabra White-flowered Chelone l.b. 423 - obliqua Red ditto l.b. 424 - ruelloides Scarlet ditto l.b. 425 - formosa

471 pisiformis Siberian ditto c.m. 472 Vicia pisiformis Pale-flowered Vetch c.m. 473 Glycyrrhiza echinata Prickly-leaved Liquorice c.m. 474 - glabra Common ditto c.m.