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Verpascum Mycont. BoracE-LEAv’D | 
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Clafs and Order. 
PentTanpria MonocyrYnNtas 
| Generic Charafer. 
Corolla totata, fubinequalis. Cap/. 1-locularis 2-valvis. 
Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
VERBASCUM myconi foliis lanatis radicalibus, feapo nido, 
: Linn. Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. ps 220. — 
: Ait. Kew. p. 238... — 
CORTUSA foliis ovatis feffilibus. Lian. Hort. Cliff: 50. 
SANICULA alpina, foliis boraginis villofa. Bauh. Pin. 243: 
AURICULA u7/ myconi. Dalech. Hifl. 837. 
AURICULA ur flore cceruleo folio Boraginis. Blew Beares — 
Eares with Borage leaves. Park, Parad. px 
296. B37. f. 4. a 
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Mott of the plants of this genus are tall and fhewy; the — 
‘one here figured is however, of very humble growth, its — 
flowering ftem in the cultivated plant rarely exceeding fix — 
inches in height; its flowers are proportionably large, of @ 
blueifh purple colour, and highly ornamental; they make their 
appearance’in May, and continue fucceffively in bloffom fot — 
feveral months, hence it becomes a defirable plant to cultivate, 
efpecially for the decorating of rock-work; it is very hardys 
requires a north afpe&t in the fummer, and to be carefully 
watered in dry weather; will ‘grow in almoft any foil, and is — 
_ ufually propagated by planting its roots in autumn. — 
_ Grows {pontaneoufly on the Pyrenean Alps; in its wild ftate — 
it is more dwarfifh than our figure reprefents it, its foliage — 
more woolly, and enriched with various tints, which the plant — 
lofes on cultivation; fuch fpecimens I faw in the poffeffion of 
Dr. R. Hartrax, of Albemarle-Street, who gathered it of — 
its.native Alps. : a 
Was cultivated by Mr. Mriuza, in 1731, Ait. Kew. and 
_ moft probably long before that period by Parxinson, who- 
gives a figure and accurate defcription of it in his Parad. ter 
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