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while. I( is a native of Spain and Portugal, tloweiing in June and 

 Julv. 



The fit'ih has an upright stem : the branches numerous, slender, 

 lound, smooth, slightly striated, having a lew tul>ereles scattered 

 over them, below leaflets : the leaves on the younger branehlets 

 small, lanceolate, deciduous, silky, with very short hairs pressed 

 close: the flowers small, racemed, each on a very short pedicel. It 

 is a native of the South of Europe and Barbary, flowering in June 

 and July. 



The sixth species is a shrub wholly covered with alternate spines, 

 on which the flowers are placed; this renders it quite inaccessible : 

 the branches and leaves are striated and ash-coloured, and the latter 

 are a little villose: the flowers are yellow and rather large. It is a 

 native of the South of Europe and Barbary, flowering in March and 

 April. 



Tlie seventh has the stalks and branches slender, having a few- 

 trifoliate and siniile leaves towards the l)ottom : the branches have 

 six angles or i'unows : the flowers small, of a pale yellow colour, 

 produced in loose spikes at the ends of the branches, rarely produc- 

 ing seeds in this eliinaie. It is a native of the Levant. 



The eighth species has stalks five or six feet high, sending out 

 many fl(-xib!e branches, armed with long spines: flowers terminat- 

 ing in clusters, each upon a long pedicel : corolla bright yellow, ap- 

 pearing in June. It is a native of Italy and Spain. 



Culture. — The three first sorts are hardy, but the others more 

 tender, especially in their young growth. 



They are all capable of being raised from seeds, and the double- 

 blossomed sorts by layers and cuttings. The seeds should be sov/n 

 in the early spring, as about April; the hardy sorls in beds of com- 

 mon earth, either in drills or by bedding in to the depth of an inch : 

 but in the tender sorts in pots or beds hooped over to protect them 

 in frosty weather. In the following spring they s'.iOuld be removed 

 into nursery-rows or larger pols, according to the kinds, shortening 

 their tap-roots, and setting them out in rows two feet apart, at the 

 distance of one in the rows, to remain two or three years, when they 



