with lanceolate, acute fegments ; ftamens fhorter than thefc, 

 broad- Tubulate, of the fame colour as the corolla; anthers fhort, 

 horizontally incumbent. Flowers in May and June. 



A native of Portugal ; found alfo in the fields of the Alge- 

 rine and Tunifian territories by Desfontaines. Linnaeus 

 muft have been induced to give the fpecific title of peruviana, 

 on the authority of Clusius, who received it with the notice 

 of its coming from Peru out of the garden of Everard 

 Munich oven, a botanical dilettante of that day, but who 

 certainly was miftaken in fuppofing it to have been brought 

 from the above country, and has led both his friend, and through 

 him Linnaeus, into error. 



It is perfeftly hardy, propagates freely by offsets, and was 

 formerly much more common in our gardens than at prefent. 

 We have feen a white variety of it. Our drawing was taken at 

 the Botanic Garden, Brompton. G. 



