Cex ovatus, fubdentatus, braétea fuffultus. Corolla refupinata. 
~ vated in our gardens as this; we find it figured in Gerarp 
_“ ftalks, they are four-cornered, hairy, and ab ut an n 
“them; it flowers great part of the Summer, but | 
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LavANDULA DenTaTa. ‘Toorn’p-LEav’p 
: LAVENDER. | ae 
See eae ae ae eee ae 
Clas and Order. 
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA, 
Generic Charaéter. 
Stamina intra ubum, 
: Specific Charaéter and Synonyms, 
LAVANDULA dentata foliis feffilibus linearibus pe€tinato-- 
| pinnatis, {pica coarétata comofa. Linn. Syf. 
Ss ed.14. Murr. 530. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 288. 
STCECHAS dentata: foliis pinnato dentatis. Mill. Did. 
ed. 6. 410. a 
STQZCHAS: folio ferrato. Toothed Sticadoue. Ger. Herb. 
: 470. f. 3. . a 
The old Botanifts, whom Miiter has followed, made this’ 
plant a Stoechas ; Linn aus claffes it withthe Lavenders. 
There are few tender plants that have been fo long culti- 
who obferves that it muft be-covered in the Winter 
cold, or elfe fet in pots or tubs with earth, and carried | 
houfes ; thus did they preferve their tender plants before 
introduction of green-houfes, 3 ae 
~ Mitcer has given a very good account of this plant, whi 
we cannot do better than copy, juft obferving that he 
{cribes the leaves as of a grayifh colour, which they can fea 
_be faid to be, efpecially if contrafted with thofe of the pisnals 
figured in the prefent number, and which he had never feen. 
“ The deatata grows naturally in Andalufia in Spain, af 
“ alfo about Mercia; this has a ligneous ftalk, which rifles 
“two or three feet high, furnifhed with branches on eve! 
“ fide, which are four-cornered, and garnifhed with leav 
“ placed oppofite by pairs, indented regularly on both fi 
almoft to the midrib, in form of winged leaves ; they are 
“a grayifh colour, have a pleafant aromatic odour, 
“ biting warm tafte. The flowers are produced in fcaly {pik 
“at the end of the branches, ftanding upon long naked foc 
cr 
“ Jong, terminated by a few purplifh leaves, in the lik 
* ner as the oher forts, which incline me to keep it join 
« 
very rarely ripen in England, It is propagated by 
= cuttings.” 
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