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The rifdi lias around hianchcd stem, live I'eeLliigii, viilosc at lo]), 

 reddish: llic leaves soft, whitish, loinenlose, unequally serrate; the 

 lower subcordale-hastate, five-angled; the upper ovate, three-cusped. 

 the middle lobe narrowed, acute, oblong: the stipules ovate-lanceo- 

 late, villose: the flowers on short peduncles, axillary, solitary, very 

 seldom two together; terminating ones in a spike: the outer calyx 

 ovate, with roundish-acute segments; inner larger, with lanccolale- 

 acute segments: the corolla large, spreading very much, reddish- 

 purple: the petals with narrowed claws, covered with white hairs, 

 inserted into a flesh-coloured tube: the stamens purple: the germ 

 roundish-compressed, with twenty grooves: the style divided into 

 about twenty parts: the stigmas long, iccurved: the capsules about 

 twenty, black, smooth, fixed in a ring about a thick striated cone: 

 when the seeds are ripe, that part which is next to the axis appears 

 naked, on account of the pellicle which forms the internal part of 

 the capsule adhering to the axis. According to Linnxus, the leaves 

 of the first year are very large, and those of the following much 

 smaller, which is a circumstance common lo this with otlier plants of 

 the same natural order. It is a native of the south of France, 

 flowerino; from June to October. 



The sixth species has a round branched stem, from three to four 

 feet in height: the leaves are alternate, pelioled, shorter than the 

 petioles, roundish, but with the border so rolled back as to appear 

 triangular: the stipules cordate, broad, acuminate, serrate: the 

 flowers axillary: three peduncles, mostly one-flowered, in each axil, 

 upright, shorter than the petiole: the segments of the outer calyx 

 broad-cordate, acuminate : the inner calyx twice as large, five- 

 cornered, acuminate, with the corners prominent: corolla large, 

 spreading, pale purple, with the claws while, hairy: the capsules 

 about fifteen, in a ring about a column ending in a point. According 

 to Linn^us, the whole plant is tomentose, being covered wiih very 

 small glutinous hairs, with other larger ones slellale at top mixed 

 among them. It is a native of France and Spain, flowering from 

 ,!une lo Se pi ember. 



