ginal ones. Of thefe, that of Pena expreffes the habit of the 
plant the beft, but was taken after the flowers had dropped 
off, in which flate the fpecimens in herbariums are frequently 
found. Perhaps it was this circumftance that mifled Lin- 
naus when he defcribes the corolla “ as fcarcely larger than 
the calyx.” 
A native of the Southern parts of France, Spain, and 
Portugal ; growing chiefly on dry gravelly hills; is faid to be 
particularly abundant about Montpelier, and in fimilar foils 
in other parts of Languedoc. 
It owes its fpecific title of Lychnitis, as well as its Spanifh 
name Candelera, to the ufe to which the long flender radical 
leaves are applied, as wicks for lamps, which purpofe they 
are faid to anfwer very well, even in their recent ftate. 
Cultivated by Mixver in the Phyfic-Garden at Chelfea, in 
1731, but may be confidered with us as a very rare plant. Is_ 
generally treated as a greenhoufe fhrub, but in a fheltered 
fituation and dry gravelly foil, it would probably do much 
better in the openair. Flowers in July. Our drawing was 
made in the garden of E. J. A, Wooprorp, Efq. late at 
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