This hardy herbaceous perennial is a native of Northern 

 Africa, and fufficiently hardy to bear our milder winters in the 

 open air, but is liable to be deftroyed by fevere froft. Being 

 a plant of confiderable beauty, though not fweet-fcemed, it is 

 worthy of being more generally cultivated than it is, efpecially 

 as it is fo eafily propagated either by feeds or cuttings. 



Flowers through the whole of the fummer. Introduced 

 about the year 1789. 



Drawn at the Botanic Garden, Brompton. 



