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red orange colour, varying to while, blush, and variable, that is, pale 

 red, growing paler till it becomes almost while. It is a native of 

 Russia, Sec. 



Besides its varying as above, there is a variety wilh very double 

 flowers of a beautiful scarlet colour: it has a perennial root, from 

 which arise two, three, or four stalks, according to the slrensrth of 

 the roots, which in lich moist land grow upwards of four icet high; 

 the stalks are strong, erect, and hairy, being garnished the whole 

 length with spear-shaped leaves sitting close to the stalks, placed 

 opposite; and just above each pair of leaves there are four smaller 

 leaves standing round the stalk : the flowers are produced in close 

 clusters sitting upon the top of the stalk: when the roots are strong, 

 the clusters of flowers are very large, and make a fine appearance, 

 coming out the latter end of June, and in moderate seasons continue 

 near a month in beauty. The stalks decay in autumn, and new ones 

 arise in the following spring. 



The second has also a i)erennial root, bronwish while, subacrid : 

 the stems from one to three feet high, upright, somewhat angular 

 and grooved, swelled at the Joints, purplish: they are procumbent, 

 and become upright at the time of flowering: the stem-leaves oppo- 

 site, connate, lanceolate, keeled, upright, smooth: the pediuicles 

 opposite, with one generally between them: the calyx ten-angled, 

 of a deep purple colour: the corolla pink or j)urj)lish red, varyino- 

 sometimes to white: ihc border of the petals dividing into four seg- 

 ments, of which the two outer are shorter and narrower: the claws 

 have two small spear-shaped teeth at the top: the capsule one- 

 celled, the mouth having five teeth which turn back: the seeds 

 flattish, rugged, of a brown ash-colour. It is a native of most parts 

 of Europe, flowering in May and June. 



In the third the whole plant is smooth: the stem simple, round, 

 upright, a fool high: the leaves opposite, embracing, oblong-ovate, 

 acute, entire, an inch or a little more in length : the flowers aggre- 

 gate, about three, sessile: the calyx is ten-angled: the petals are 

 gashed, crenatc multifid: the filaments the length of the lube of the 

 corolla, filiform: the germ superior: styles five, mucli shorter than the 



