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axil or bractc ; the corollas small; the style longer than the corolla. 

 It is a native of Pennsylvania, flowering in July. 



There are varieties, with single white, with single blue, and with 



double blue flowers. ^ , n c 



The tenth is a shrubby ornamental plant, a native of the Lape ol 



Good Hope, flowering here in Augusl. 



In the eleventh species the whole plant is full of a milky juice : 

 the root is biennial, spindle-shaped, sometimes branching: the stem 

 upriuht, anoular, two leet high, hairy towards the l,ase, smooth 

 abo'e: branches alternate, shorl, upright: the leaves toward, ihe 

 base of the stem hairy above or on both sides, blunt ; the upi.er ones 

 smooth, and becoming gradually more pointed; obscurely notched : 

 teeth olandular, whitish, not projecting beyond the edge ot the leal : 

 there is an'awl-shaped braete at the base of each peduncle: the seg- 

 ments of the calyx are awl-shaped, or setaceous, twice as lon^ as the 

 germ, with a small tooUi on each side of the base: the flowers arc 

 upric^lU : the corolla blucish purple, sometimes very pale purple 

 or whitish; each segment marked with three lines: the necUuy 

 fringed. It grows wild in France, kc, flowering in June, July, and 



" The fleshy roots are eatable, and are much cultivated in France 



for salads. , , 



Culture -The plants in this extensive genus arc mostly hard}, 

 and increased with little difficulty. The six tirst sorts, and their 

 varieties, are all capal>le of being raised by dividing the roots in ll.e 

 autumn or early spring, and planting them out on the beds, borders, 

 or other parts. The former is, however, the better season ior the 

 purpose, as the roots become better established before they begin to 

 shoot up n,to stem. They thrive in almost any soil or situation As 

 the plants of the steeple bell-flower, trained for adorning halls and 

 chimneys, are scldomprop.r for the purpose the followmg season 

 after being planted oul, a supply of young plants should be annually 

 raised And though tins .s mostly done by otlsets. as being the 

 quickest mode, tin- pl<uas raised from seed are always stronger; the 



