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the disposition of ihc leaves in five or six rows may be best observed 

 by vio\vin<>; (lie |)lanl with the ends of the branches opposed lo ihe 

 eye: ihe paniele snbeytned, niany-Howered, widi the branchlets 

 scarcely i( flexed: the flowers of a bright yellow or gold colour, often 

 six-cleft. It is a naiive of England and Wales, &c. perennial, 

 flowering in July. 



This, as well as the above, is cultivated in Holland and Germany 

 to mix with lettuc.s in salads. 



The tenth has a slender, fibrous, perennial root: the stems seve- 

 ral, a hand high, rcc ining at the base, and then erect, round, tinged 

 ivith red: the leaves, on the flowering stems, pale green doited with 

 purple, oblong, lhicki>h, round on one side and flat on the other; 

 towards the top, under the flowers, more sweliin" and shorter: 

 leaves on young plants or baricn shools, in bundles, glaucous, with- 

 out any purple tlols, thinner, frou) a nairow base widening gradually, 

 and entling in a ijluiit point: the stems divide at lop into a few 

 branchlets, forming a sort of und)cl, (or rather cyme) bearing sessile, 

 star-like white flowers, stained with pale purple from a j)iirple 

 groove running along the petals: these arc six, sometimes seven in 

 number, keeled and cuspcd. It is a naiive of Sjiain and Carinthia, 

 flowering in July. 



'J'he eleventh species has a perennial, fibrous root: the stems 

 decumbent at bottom, and there throwing out fibres; flowering stems 

 upright, from three inches lo a span in luighl, round, leafy, branched, 

 smooth : the leaves scattered thinly, spreading out horizontally, ses- 

 sile, cylindrical, very blunt, smooth, fleshy, somewliat glaucous and 

 generally reddisji: panicle lerminaling, allernately branched, sub- 

 cymose, many-flowered, smooth. Jt is a native of J'urope, on rocks, 

 walls and roofs, flowering in July. 



It is eaten by some as a pickle. 



The twelfth has also a |>erennial, fibrous root: the stems nume- 

 rous, growing in tutls, much b anched, decumbent, and creeping at 

 the base, then upright, three inches high, smooth, round, very leafy: 

 the leaves closely imbricate, bluni, flatted a liiile, from upright 

 spreading, loose at the base: the cymes terminating, solitary, t'cw- 



