species is biennial, and best kept in a frame during winter 

 and planted out in summer. 



Descr. Boot small, woody, biennial. Steins one to two 

 feet long, prostrate and ascending, slender, straggling, terete, 

 clothed sparsely with spreading hairs. Leaves alternate, 

 petiole very slender, one to two inches long, and as well as 

 the nerves beneath hairy like the stem ; stipules green, 

 small, linear- or oblong-lanceolate ; blade very variable, one to 

 two and a half inches long, half to one inch broad, oblong or 

 elliptic, or broadly ovate, obtuse, rounded or subacute at the 

 tip, cuneate, rounded or cordate at the base, serrate, crenate 

 or sinuate-subpinnatifld on the margin. Flowers two to two 

 and a half inches diameter, axillary, solitary, pedicels longer 

 than the leaves, and calyx hairy or hispid. Bracts cordate. 

 Calyx-lobes elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Petals 

 obovate, rose-pink, notched at the truncate or retuse apex. 

 Anthers very numerous, small, yellow. Ovary-lobes nume- 

 rous, minute ; stigmas capillary, purple. — /. B. H. 



Fig. 1. Ovary with style and stigmas. 



