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* LEPTOSÍPHON densiflórus. 
T hick-flowered Slender-tube. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. POLEMONIACEE. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p.219.) 
LEPTOSIPHON. Supra, fol. 1710. 
L. densiflorus ; foliis 9-11-fidis, laciniis subulatis - strictis margine revolutis, 
coroll tubo limbo breviore. - Bentham supra fol. 1622 in textu. Hort. 
Trans. n. s. v. 1. t. 18. f. 2. 
In its general appearance before flowering, this is very 
like £. androsaceus, only it is somewhat grayer in consequence 
of its leaves being more glandular. When in flower it is very 
different; its corolla is three times as large, with broader 
and blunter segments, and with a short thickish tube, instead 
of a long and slender one. -Its colours vary in the same 
manner from purple to blue and white, but they are less 
lively, and are not produced in the same abundance ; and it 
must be considered decidedly inferior in point of beauty. 
It flowers in October and November, if sown in the 
Spring ; and in April and May, if sown in the autumn ; but 
it would hardly survive a severe winter. Its seeds are pro- 
duced in very small quantity, so that, being an annual, it is 
likely to remain for some years a very rare plant. 
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* See folio 1710. 
