In being annual, it recedes in its nature from all the species of the genus we are acquainted with, except X. annuum of Linnæus; which, however, we think, with Jussieu, of a perfectly distinct genus; on account of its squamous receptacle; and its variety (inapertum) a distinct species: the structure of the receptacle in the extensive class Syngenesia being of great consequence in the formation and distribution of genera. The seedlings of the waved-leaved Eternal Flower are best raised early, like China Asters, on a gentle hot-bed, and, when large enough, should be transplanted out in showery weather, where they are intended to remain: they will become erect and bushy, attain the height of three feet or upwards, and produce their polished, golden-coloured flowers in autumn, in profusion. Possessing no recent specimens in bloom, we have omitted a technical description. Our drawing was made last summer, from fine living plants at Mr. Colvill’s, Nurseryman, in the King’s Road; who raised it in the year 1799 from Port Jackson seeds sent him by Colonel Paterson. [Illustration] PLATE CCCLXXVI. NEOTTIA MINOR. _The Lesser Neottia._ CLASS XX. ORDER I. _GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA._ Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. SPATHÆ vagæ. Spadix simplex. Corolla petala 5 æqualia erecta. Nectarium monophyllum indivisum acuminatum. SHEATHS scattered. Fruit-stalk simple. Corolla 5 petals of equal length erect. Nectary one-leafed undivided sharp-pointed. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C. NEOTTIA, foliis ellipticis acuminatis quintuplinerviis. NEOTTIA, with elliptic sharp-pointed leaves, with five nerves meeting above the base. NEOTTIA minor, foliis planis, spathis virescentibus. _Jac. Ic. 3. 16. t. 601._--SATYRIUM elatum. _Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2. 56._--SERAPIAS Neottia. _Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2. 59. monente Dryandro, in Linn. Tr. 2. 215._ DESCRIPTIO. _Folia_ elliptica, acuminata, quintuplinervia, nervo medio subtus cæteris multo majore, viridia, infra pallidiora. _Caulis_ tereti-compressus, pubescens 1-3-pedalis, foliis alternis spathaceis, remotis, instructus. _Flores_ siccos exceptos non possideo. H. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A blossom, seed-bud and sheath. 2. The same magnified without the sheath, the cover of the tips elevated. 3. A flower without the honey-cup. 4. The chives and pointal as they appear detached. 5. The pointal magnified. What the Neottia minor wants in splendour and beauty, is counterbalanced by the interesting structure of its flowers; which however is not peculiar to it; but frequent in the fine order to which it belongs: the Orchideæ. Until Jacquin established it as a distinct genus, it was considered as a species of, and retained a place in the genus Serapias, as well as the more showy N. speciosa of our third plate.