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and have a grayish bark: ihc leaves for the inosL part opposite upon 

 pretty long footstalks; they are composed of five, six, or seven leal- 

 lets, spreading out like the fingers of a hand; the lower ones small, 

 and the middle largest; they are smooth and entire; die largest arc 

 about three inches long, and half an inch broad in the middle, 

 ending in blunt points, of a dark green on their upper side, but hoary 

 on their uiuler: the flowers are produced in spikes at the extremity 

 of the branches, from seven to fifteen inches in length, composed of 

 distant whorls; in some plants ihcy arc Avhite, in others blue. They 

 are generally late before they appear. 'J'hey have an agreeai)lc 

 odour when they open lair, and make a good appearance in autumn, 

 when die flowers of most other shrubs are gone. It is a native of 

 Sicily. 



There are varieties wil!i narrow leaves, with broad leaves, will 

 blue flowers, and with white flowers. 



The second species has the stature of the preceding, but snuiller 

 in all its parts, with (juinatc acuminate pinnalifid lcav(;s, pul)escent 

 underneath. It is a shrub seldom risins; more than ihrce fe(;t hiah, 

 sending out on every side spreading branches, which are slender and 

 angular: the lea\es opi)osite upon pretty long footstalks; some com- 

 posed of three, others of five leaflets, whicli are der|)Iy and regularly 

 cut on their sides, like pinnatifid leaves, and end in acute poiiUs: 

 the largest of these leaflets is about an inch and half lou"-, and three 

 quarters of an inch broad in lh<> middle; ihey are ol" a dull green 

 colour on their upper side, and gray on their under: ihe braiu-lics 

 are terminated by sjjikcs of flowers three or Ibm inches long, dis- 

 posed in whorls; in some j)lants they are white,' in others blue, and 

 some have bright red flowers: they are in beauty from the middle ol' 

 July to the beginning of Septendjer. Jt is a luitive (jf China. 



The third has the leaflets ovate, acute, (|uite entire, lomenlose 

 imdernealh, the tv.-o nearest to the petiole snudler: the stem is 

 shrubby, branched, round, cigiit feet high, tlu; thickness of a finger, 

 procumbent, sometimes creeping: the leaves ternal(>, seldom (jui- 

 nalr: leaflets waved, dusk}', green above, einercous-hoary bcnealh, 

 soft: common petioles long, opposite: the flowers violet in dichoto- 



