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some appearance when planted thickly in an open border. 
It was remarked, however, by Mr. Bentuam, how much : 
better this Genus and the nearly allied one Gurr succeeded 
in our Glasgow Botanic Garden, than in the environs of 
London ; doubtless owing to our cooler temperature and 
moister climate. Professor Linptey indeed, observes of 
this plant, in the noble gardens of the Horticultural Society, | 
that, “ although it is perfectly hardy, yet it cannot bear our 
summer heats, and only flourishes in the spring, and more 
particularly in autumn, when the sun has lost its power, 
and the nights are cool with heavy dews.”” It should there- 
_ fore be sown either in the autumn, so as to flower early ; or 
~ in June, in order that it may be ready for blossoming in | 
September. In our Scottish climate, it has been in its 
. © greatest beauty at the hottest season of the year (1835) the 
latter end of July, expanding its varied blossoms, white 
and various degrees of lilac, always with a black eye and 
deep yellow anthers and stigmas, to the full blaze of ' 
the sun. . a 
Descr. Root fibrous, annual. Stem eight inches to a , 
foot high, throwing out sparingly axillary, opposite branches 
chiefly from near the base, which, as well as the stem itself, 
are spreading below, then erect, purplish-green, downy. 
Leaves opposite, hairy, deeply pinnatifid, or rather almost — 
digitate, with from five to seven linear, acute, and almost — 
cuspidate segments ; upper ones constituting bracteas to 
the head of flowers: lowermost ones with only one or two 
spreading segments at the base. Calyx tubular, with five 
subulate, erect, equal, hairy teeth. Corolla salver-shaped ; 
tube very long, slender, purplish: limb spreading, of five 
ovate segments, the faux almost black, with a pale yellow- 2 
ish circle round it. Filaments short, black, inserted just =~ 
within the faux. Anthers oval-oblong, orange-yellow. 
Style exserted. Stigmas three-cleft. 
Fig. 1. Flower: magnified. 
