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ORD. XIX. Verticillate. $21 
LAVANDULA SPICA. COMMON LAVENDER. 
SYNONYMA. Lavendula. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Laven- 
dula angustifolia flore ceruleo. Bauh. Pin. p. 216. © Lavendula 
minor sive spica. Gerard. Emac. p. 584. Raii. Hist.p.513. Park. 
Theat. p.73. Pseudo-nardus que Lavendula vulgo. J. Bauh. 
Hist. vol. iii. p. 282. Lavandula foliis lineribus, spicis nudis. 
Hal, Stirp. Helo. n. 232. 
Varictates sunt. : 
« Lavandula angustifolia flore ceruleo. Bauwh. Pin. p. 216. 
Narrow-leaved blue flowered common Lavender. 
6 Lavandula angustifolia flore albo. Rauh. 1. c. 
Narrow-leaved white flowered common Lavender. 
y Lavandula latifolia. Bauh. 1. ¢. 
Broad-leaved common Lavender. Vide Aiton. Hort. Kew. » 
Class Didynamia. Ord. Gymnospermia. Lin. Gen. Plant: 711. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Calyx ovatus, subdentatus, bractea suffultus. Corolla 
resupinata. Stamina intra tubum. 
Sp. Ch. _L. foliis sessilibus lanceolato-linearibus margine revolutis, _ 
spica interrupta nuda, 
THE root is perennial, thick, fibrous, and woody: the stalk is 
_ shrubby, much branched, and often rises to the height of five or six 
feet: the bark of the younger shoots is of a pale-green colour, but 
of the old woody part of the stem rough and brown: the leaves 
are numerous, long, narrow, entire, without footstalks, of a whitish 
green colour: the flowers are produced in terminal spikes upon the 
young shoots, and are of a bright blue colour: the corolla consists, 
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