OPHRYS with fly-like flowers, alternate, and lateral: the lip of the honey-cup is three-cleft: the side segments are linear, and lance-shaped: the middle one is oblong, two-lobed, and longer than the side ones: the petals are spreading: the three outer ones are lance-shaped, green, and obtuse, the two inner ones are linear, very short, and purple: leaves enfoliating the stem: bulb roundish. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The blossom. 2. The same shown from the outer side. 3. The honey-cup. 4. The same shown from the under side. 5. Chives and pointal, magnified. Amongst the Alpine plants of G. Hibbert, esq. we met with this curious little insectiferous plant, and which, like the preceding figure, is said to be indigenous to almost all Europe. It is figured in the English Botany of Dr. Smith, but apparently from a taller plant, and differs in the colour of the body. It is also represented in the Botanical Magazine, of a higher stature, but nearly the same in colour. Variations probably the mere effect of climate, and a different mode of culture. As they all bear an unequivocal resemblance to the fly, so exact a representation of ever so humble a species of animated nature will no doubt be always thought deserving a place in every collection. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCLXXII. HIBBERTIA CRENATA. _Scolloped-leaved Hibbertia._ CLASS XIII. ORDER X. _POLYANDRIA DECAGYNIA._ Many Chives. Ten Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Stamina numerosa, receptaculo inserta. Germina quinque vel decem, desinentia in stylis, oligo-sperma. EMPALEMENT 5-leaved. Five petals. Chives numerous, inserted into the receptacle. Seed-buds 5 or 10, terminating in shafts, few-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HIBBERTIA foliis crenatis, sub-cordatis: floribus solitariis, axillaribus, luteis, patentibus. Caulis fruticosus: ramis patentibus, numerosis, purpureis. HIBBERTIA with scolloped leaves nearly heart-shaped. Flowers grow singly from the insertion of the leaves, are of a yellow colour, and spreading. Stem shrubby. Branches spreading, numerous, and purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. A petal. 3. Chives and pointals. 4. Seed-buds and pointals. 5. A seed-bud and pointal, magnified. This is an addition to the genus Hibbertia, but differs from the H. volubilis in having ten pointals instead of five; and will most likely, when more of the genus are in cultivation with us, form a section under the title of decagynia, and the original of the genus as pentagynia: a mode frequently adopted, to prevent that confusion too often attending the formation of new genera. Under this arrangement the genus of Hibbertia will be considerably enlarged, and certainly no genus more deserves it than that which bears the name of such a liberal promoter of botanic science.