species ; and both in the wild and cultivated plant vary 

 from 3 to 4 in a v^horl. It is a perennial, and easily 

 cultivated in common soil. 



" Stem round, branching, red, smooth, and wiry, a foot 

 to 16 inches high. Leaves sessile, linear, acute, widely 

 and unequally dentate, in threes round the stem, the upper 

 or floral ones perfectly entire and glabrous. Flowers axil- 

 lary, panicled, with upright, rarely more than 3-flowered 

 peduncles, clothed with very fine, long, white, entangled 

 hairs. Segments of the calyx ovate, acute, hairy in the 

 same degree as the peduncles. Corolla tubular, some- 

 what ventricose, pale rose colour, with dark veins, nearly 

 equally 5-cleft. Upper Jilaments dilated at the base. Anther 

 smooth, white. Rudiment filiform, bearded half way down 

 at the upper side." — Douglas. 



J. L. 



