the more natural number in our plant, though in this they 

 fometimes grow by pairs and now and then by fours. The 

 leaves are alfo more lance-fhaped and lefs oval than in arvenfis, 

 the anthers too are pointed and incurved at the upper ex- 

 tremity. In the economy of the two plants there is a remark- 

 able difference, for while the flowers of the common pimpernel 

 are never open except in fair weather, and have, from their 

 fenfibility to the prefence or abfence of the fun, been called 

 " the poor man's weather-glafs," the flowers of our plant pay 

 fo little regard to the changes of the atmofphere, that when 

 once fully expanded, they remain open night and day. 



It is readily propagated by cuttings, and will, if planted in 

 the open ground, produce feeds ; but to preferve it through 

 the winter, muft be entirely protected from froft. Is of late 

 introduftion among us from Paris. Vbntenat fays, it is a 

 native of Africa, near Mogadore. 



