gardens, having been cultivated in them from the days of 

 Parkinson. It belongs to the South of France, Spain, and 

 the Coast of Barbary, and is said to affect wild hilly spots 

 near the sea-shore. It requires some slight protection from 

 hard frost in winter. 



In the Spanish Annals of Science the dried plant, re- 

 duced to powder, is celebrated as a most efficacious vul- 

 nerary ; chiefly however used, as it appears by the various 

 attestations of its cures, in the pious practice of the late 

 monasteries. 



Lamarck speaks of the plant as a dwarfish herbaceous 

 perennial, remarkable for its prickly pointed calyx and 

 heathlike foliage; and describes it with a rootstock bearmg 

 several stems, of a somewhat woody consistence at the base, 

 where they begin to divide into branches, more or less up- 

 right, from 5 to 8 inches long, round, ash-coloured or some- 

 times with a tinge of red, and full-leaved throughout their 

 whole length. Leaves numerous, scattered, small, linear, 

 narrow, for the most part entire; the upper ones in the 

 wild plant being however edged with sharp prickly teeth. 

 Fhuoers either of a red or else blueish purple, nearly sessile, 

 and disposed at the top of the stem in close-set heads or 

 ovate spikes. Calyx subventricose, five-toothed, with prickly 

 diverging points from the base of the teeth. Corolla tu- 

 bular, irregular, sloping; tube the length of the calyx; 

 limh 5-parted, segments short, oblong, obtuse, one-notched, 

 uneven ; stamens but little shorter than the corolla, inserted 

 on the tube, sloping in an opposite direction to the slope of 

 the limb of the corolla ; anthers nearly round. Germen glo- 

 bular, superior (within the calyx) ; style the length of the 

 stamens ; stigma simple, thickened. Capsule globular, con- 

 cealed within the calyx, one-celled, 5-valved: seeds ovoid. 



The drawing was made from a plant obligingly sent by 

 Mr. Lambert from Boyton, in Wiltshire. 



