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The second species has a perennial creeping root, sending up 

 several stroii<j; stalks two feet liioh and branchina;. The leaves cut 

 into many fine segments to the midrib. Each branch is terminated 

 by a globular head of tlowers, smaller than those of the first, and of 

 a deeper bUic, but sometimes white: they come out in July. It is a 

 native of the South of France. 



It also varies with white tlowers. 



The third is an annual plant, with a slift' white stalk two feet high. 

 The leaves divided, ending in many points, which have spines; their 

 ILipper side green, covered with brown hairs, their under side white 

 and woolly : the stalk is terminated by one large head of pale blue 

 flowers, appearing in July. It is a native of France, &c. 



Culture. — These plants are readily increased by sowing the seeds 

 in the autumn in the places where the plants are to grow. When 

 ihey are come up in the spring, they should be properly thinned and 

 kept free from weeds. Some of the strongest plants may likewise be 

 removed to other situations. In the third sort the seeds are better 

 sown in the early spring. 



They are well suited to afford variety in the large borders of gar- 

 dens or pleasure-grounds, as they succeed in almost any soil. 



2. ERYNGIUM ALPINUM. 



ALPINE ERYNGO. 



Tins genus contains plants of the hardy flowering biennial and 

 perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Fentandria Digynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Umbellatce. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a common conic receptacle, 

 ,chaft's separating the sessile fioscules : involucre of the receptacle 

 many-leaved, flat, exceeding the floscules: perianthium proper five- 

 Jeaved, upright, sharp, exceeding the corolla, seated on the germ: 



