124 RHODORE^. [part i. 



with funnel-shaped corollasj and leaves dotted 

 on the under surface. They are so much alike 

 as scarcely to be distinguished at first sight, 

 but on examination the leaves of It.ferrugineum 

 will be found to have brown dots, and to be 

 plain on the margin ; while those of R. hir- 

 sutum have white dots and are fringed with fine 

 hairs. 



Of all the species of the genus, those which 

 differ most widely from the others are the 

 Indian kinds. Of these R. arhoreum has a ten- 

 celled capsule, and the segments of the corolla 

 two-lobed with waved margins. The leaves are 

 long and silvery beneath ; and the capsules, the 

 peduncles, and the calyxes, are all woolly. In 

 R. campanulatum^ a splendid species with very 

 large flowers, the capsule is six-celled, the leaves 

 are somewhat cordate at the base, and the 

 bracts are fringed ; and in R. anthopogon the 

 corolla has a cylindrical tube, woolly inside, and 

 a small but spreading limb, cut into five lobes. 

 There are eight stamens, and the capsule is five- 

 celled. 



R, Camtschaticum, R. Chamcecistus, and R. 

 dauricum differ from the preceding species in 

 having their corollas rotate, that is, wheel- 

 shaped. The last of these kinds is a fa- 

 vourite greenhouse shrub, from its flowering 

 under shelter in winter. In the open ground 



