from which paniculata of the Hortus Kewensis was insti- 
tuted. The first belongs to the South of Europe, the seed 
of the latter was brought from the Island of Madeira by Mr. 
Masson; yet the two have been subsequently united into a 
same species by Sir James Smith, as editor of the Flora 
Greca, and by M. Lehmann in a late Monograph of this 
tribe of plants. In our judgment the Levant plant of the 
Flora Greeca is plainly the same as the Madeira one; but 
on the other hand both appear to us distinct from italica, 
the European plant, which is taller and of a more succulent 
habit, with broad upper cauline leaves ovate and conspicu- 
ously cordate (indented) at the base, a circumstance which 
does not belong either to the specimen of the Madeira plant 
or to the Levant one, if we áre to judge from the figure in 
the Flora Graeca, while it is most obvious both in Retzius's 
specimen and in the excellent figure of ifalica in Trew's 
work. The distinction relied on by the learned editors of 
the Hortus Kewensis to separate paniculata from italica, as 
well as from all others of the genus, viz. that the segments 
of the calyx are parted from each other down to the bottom, 
certainly does not hold good in regard to italica, where the 
calyx is parted as far as in paniculata. Notwithstanding 
this, we have thought it safer to keep the two distinct, 
because of the other differences we have stated. 
We know by Gerarde, that it was cultivated here in 
1597. 
A hardy biennial plant. Stem straight, roundish, from 
two to three feet high or more, branching, like the rest of 
the plant covered with a hard bristly fur, the hairs of which 
are spreading, and stand upon a callous tubercle. Branches 
Spreading, terminating in racemes. Radicle and lower cau- 
line leaves petioled, tapering downwards to a petiole which 
is flat at the upper side, lanceolate, pointed, undulate; 
upper ones sessile; topmost ones cordately ovate at the base 
and tapering to a point from above the middle; all of them 
stiffly furred, of a deep green, and rather shining. Racemes 
terminal, bipartite with a single flower in the fork, loose, 
divaricate, forming a panicle at the top of the stem, beset 
with linear bractes of the length of the pedicles; pedicles 
upright and pointing one way, standing wide apart. Calyx 
the length of the pedicle, hispid (stiffly furred), five-parted 
down to the base; segments subulate, unequal. Corolla 
