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LAVANDULA Pinnata. PINNATED 
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| Cla/s and Order, 
DipyNAMIa GYMNOSPERMIA, 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Calyx ovatus, fubdentatus, braétea fuffultus. Corolla refapinata, a 
Stamina intratubum,. —_- ee 
Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms. ee 
LAVANDULA pinata foliis petiolatis: foliolis cuneiformi- 
| bus, fpica imbricata. Linn. Syf. Veget. ed. 14 
Murr, p. 530. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 288. 
Linn. Fil. Diff. de Lavandula n. 4. tet. 
_LAVANDULA maritima Canarienfis, {pica multiplici-cerulea, 
Pluk. alm. 209. te 303. f. 5» Facq. Pl. rar. ite 
cent. 1. t. Qe ; 
The Lavandula pinnatais a green-houle plant, comparatively 
of modern introduétion, a native of Madeira, according to 
Masson, and brought to this country in 1777. 
_ _ At rifes to about the fame height as the dentata, but differs — 
"from it materially in the form and colour of its foliage, which — 
is of a whitifh hue, fomewhat refembling that of the Oshonna 
pediinata ; it differs alfo in having little or no fcent, an 
equal degree of difference is obfervable in the fpikes and 
flowers of the two plants, the former are moft commonly 
branched and the latter large and purple, while in the dentata 
they are fmall and white ; it would be needlefs to point out 
feveral other obvious differences. - Os ge ee 
The dentata rarely ripens its feeds with us, but the 
does readily, and by them it is beft raifed, 9° a 
__ Both thefe plants are common to our green-houfes ; the 
dentata recommends itfelf by the neatnefs and charming 
fragrance of its leaves, the other is altogether the more 
fhewy plant, though, in this refpe€&, it is not equal to mal 
others; our readers muft not expe& to find on every - 
an Lxia tricolor or a Ciftus formofus. oe 
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