Our specimens displayed their small but most delicately- 
marked flowers in July and August. It is very likely that 
in England at least the species might be raised in the open 
border. 
Descr. Root annual (biennial in Hort. Kew.), throwing 
out, from its crown, several spreading, decumbent, flexuose, 
filiform, simple branches, three to four or five inches long. 
Leaves glabrous, most of them petiolate, those from the 
root (which are much the largest) and those from the lower 
part of the stem spathulate, toothed, upper ones linear, ses- 
sile, (or nearly so,) entire. Flowers from the axils of the 
upper leaves, and shorter than they, solitary, pedunculate. 
Calyx of five, erect, linear-subulate segments. Corolla 
purplish-white, with a campanulate, entire tube, the limb 
slightly oblique, with five spreading, ovate acute, nearly 
equal lobes : the mouth is beautifully and regularly marked 
with deep purple, and two yellow spots. Combined anthers 
bearing two white awns. Germen almost cylindrical, a 
little tapering below, and very obscurely downy. 
Fig. 1. Front view ofa Flower. 2. Side view of ditto :-—Magnified. 
