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side: the stalks are erect, about a foot and a Imlf higli, ^vith leaves 

 about llncc inches long, and an inch and hall' broatl in the middle, 

 on ver\' short petioles and placed alternately: the stalk is terminated 

 by a spike (raceme) of flowers, of an exceeding beautiful scarlet 

 colour; they have a pretty long tube, which is a little incurved, and 

 at the top they arc cut longitudinally into five segments; the two 

 upper, which are the smallest, arc greatly retiexed; the three under, 

 which form the lower lip, arc longer, and spread open. They aj)pear 

 at the end of July and in August, when they make a fine appearance 

 for a month or more, and when the autunm proves favourable produce 

 good seeds. It grows nalurally in North America. 



The second species has a perennial root: the stem simple, 

 iVoni a foot to two feet in height, and upwards, strong, simple, smooth, 

 with angles formed by the decurrent edges of the leaves having stiff- 

 ish hairs on them: the leaves are alternate, sessile, somewhat rugged: 

 the flowers axillary, solitary, numerous, large, on short peduncles, 

 forming altogether a long spike of a \yd\c blue colour. It is a native 

 of Virginia, flowering from August to October. 



The third is an annual herbaceous elegant plant, seldom above 

 fourteen or sixteen inches in height; the whole of it rough-haired : 

 the stem almost upright, very much branched from all the axils: the 

 leaves are alternate, sessile, subpinnatifid-toothed, sharpish, smooth, 

 half a foot long : the peduncles one-flowered, axillary, solitary, vil- 

 losc. The whole plant is poisonous. It is a native of Jamaica, 

 flowering from June to August. 



The fourth species is a shrubby, upright, branched plant, the 

 branches surrounded with abundance of narrow sharp leaves an inch 

 in length : the flowers many, small, blue, at the tops of the twigs, 

 among the leaves. It is a native of the Cape of Good Ilojic. 



The fifth is a biennial plant in this climate: the stems channelled, 

 hairy, two feet high: the leaves about two inches long, and one broad in 

 the middle, sessile, light green: flowers small, on long, slender, axil- 

 lary peduncles, forming a loose spike: the corolla light blue. It 

 flowers in July, and is a native of Virginia, &c. 



