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lour, much larger ihaii those of the common sort, and stand upon 

 shorL tbot-slalks. It fiowers in July, but the seeds rarely ripen in 

 this climate, which makes the plants scarce. It is a native of 

 Crele, &c. 



The twelfth is a biennal or perennial plant, which rises with an 

 upright, branching stalk from three to four leet high, having sj^ear- 

 shapcd, allernale leaves, ending in acute points, and of a grayish 

 colour. The flowers are produced at the end of the branches, in 

 loose panicles; lliey are of a bright yeflow colour. It is a nalive of 

 Siberia, &c. 



In the thirteenth the root is biennial : the stem from a foot or 

 eighteen inches to two and even three feet in height, upright, round, 

 solid, smooth at bottom, but pubescent higher up: the leaves are 

 lanceolate or ovate, blunt, the lower mostly opposite, the upper 

 inclined to be alternate: the flowers in a spike, pointing one way, 

 large and handsome, on a very short, hairy peduncle, supported by a 

 short, concave, acuminate bracte: the nectary obtuse, scarcely pro- 

 minent: the capsule obliquely opening at top, unequal at the base; 

 vulgarly compared in sha|)e to a calf's head: the tops of the stalks 

 and the calyxes are usually viscid. It is a native of the south of 

 Europe, and flowers in June and July. 



There are a great many varieties, as with red, yellow, purple ami 

 white flowers, red with while or yellow mouths, white and red, yel- 

 low and red, yellow and white, purple and white, purple with yellow 

 mouths, with scarlet dotted with gold colour, with double flowers, 

 and variegated leaves. 



Tlie fuurtc(>nth species is a biennial, or at most a triennial plant, 

 which fre(pient!y pei'ishes soon after the seeds are ripened, 'i'iic 

 steni is erect, two feet high, branching, terminated with a long thin 

 spike: the stem-leaves small and three-parted, sometimes live-parted, 

 very diflcrent from the broad, serrate, radical ones: the ])ractes one- 

 flowered, linear, long, sometimes Irifid: the flowers \eiy small, on 

 short peduncles, in a very long raceme, containing fixrjuently an 

 hundred flowers: the segments of the calyx almost ciq)inary: the 

 corolla blue, nodding, quincpiefid, two of the divisions erect, three 



