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but the leaflets larger and more obtuse : the flowers in loose pant- 

 cles from the sides of the stem and at the extremities of the branches, 

 of a pale purple colour, with yellow chaps or lips: the pods are 

 taper, narrow, an inch and half long, containing many small black, 

 shining seeds. It flowers during summer, and is a native of North 

 America. 



In the third, the root strikes deep into the ground: the stems are 

 many, succulent, diffused, about six inches high: the leaves on long 

 branching petioles, composed of many irregular leaflets, trifid at the 

 top: peduncles axillary, naked, longer than the leaves, supporting 

 eight or nine flowers, of a bright yellow colour, in a loose spike: the 

 leaves continue green all the year, and the flowers in succession from 

 April to October. It is very like the fourth species, but is peren- 

 nial; and according to Miller, the stalks have blunt angles, are of a 

 purplish colour; and the flowers grow in a looser panicle, on longer 

 pedicles. It is a native of Barbary. 



Tiic fourth is annual: the stem four-cornered at the base: the 

 leaves superdecompound, the terminating leaflets larger, and semi- 

 trifid ; the middle segment lobed; petioles three-cornered: the ra- 

 cemes naked: pedicles shorter by half than the corollas, blackish at 

 the tip. There is a succession of the flowers from May to October. 

 It is a native of the South of Europe. 



Culture. — The first sort of these plants may be readily increased, 

 by planting off-sets from the roots in a light soil, in a shady situation, 

 in the beginning of autumn, as soon as the stems begin to decay. 



The other sorts may be raised by sowing the seeds where the 

 plants are to grow, as soon as they become perfectly ripened. 



The only culture they demand afterwards is, that of keeping them 

 free from weeds. 



They are all very ornamental in the fore parts of clumps, borders, 

 and other parts of pleasure-grounds. 



