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The second species seldom rises iwo feet high, and sends out 

 many shoit woody branches, covered wilh a hght brown bark. The 

 leaves arc ovale-lanceohue, about half an inch long, and a ((uarler 

 of an inch broad, silting pretty close to the branches; they are en- 

 tire, and have a great number of fine ferruginous hairs on their 

 edges and under side. The flowers are produced in bunches at the 

 ends of the branches. The tuljc of the corolla is about half an inch 

 long: the five segments of the brim are obtuse, spread half open> 

 and are of a pale red colour. It is a native of the mountains of 

 Switzerland. 



The third is a small shrub, very much branched, the extreme 

 branches leafy. The leaves are oblong, hard, on short reddish pe- 

 tioles. The peduncles one, or more, an inch long, villose, reddish 

 brown, terminating. Calyx deeply five-cleft, of the same colour 

 with the peduncle; the segments acute. The corolla purple, the 

 segments ovate. The stamens longer than these. The style longer 

 than the stamens. It is a native of Austria, &c. 



The fourth species has an upright trunk, shrubby, commonly 

 the height of a man, but sometimes only half so high, frequently 

 thicker than the human arm, very much branched from the bottom 

 irregularly; the wood white, the bark ash-coloured. The branches 

 round, scattered, with a smootliish testaceous bark. The leaves 

 alternately scattered, coriaceous, large, quite entire, very smooth, 

 becoming ferruginous underneath, scarcely nerved except the mid- 

 rib, having a longitudinal streak on the upper suface, of a wide- 

 lanceolate form, more attenuated towards the thick petiole. 'J he 

 flowering- buds formed in autumn for the vear foJIowino;, and cun- 

 sisting of ferruginous, ovate-acute, concave, very smoolii, imbricate 

 scales. The flowers in a short raceme at the end of the branchlels, 

 about ten, and very handsome. It is a native of the Levant, flower- 

 ing in May and June. 



The fifth species rises in its native soil, fifteen or sixteen feet 

 high, with a shrubby stalk, sending out a few branches toward-; the 

 top. The leaves stiff, smooth, six inches long and two broad, of a 

 lucid green on their upper side, and pale on their under, whilst 



