The defcription by Retz is very accurate, but as ours 
was made before we had feen his, we have thought proper to — 
infert it. From acomparifon of the two, there can remain 
no doubt that this is really the Stpene ve/pertina of the above . 
author, although fuppofed by Desrontainrs to have been 
an undefcribed {pecies, and accordingly renamed by him. , 
It is a lively annual, fit for the decoration of the border, of 
eafy culture, but not of any great beauty, and fhould be fown- 
in patches in the Spring, where the plants are intended to re- 
main. | 
Retz has not informed us of its native. country, but we 
learn from Desronratngs, that it grows in the corn fields 
about Sbiba in Morocco. 
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