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niiUal Blue Bugle ; 4. yi. Ccncvinsi^, Ctiieva 

 Bugle ; 5. ^. Oikiitalis, taslcrn Invirled White 

 Bugle ; 6. ^. Alpiiia, Alpine Bugle. 



The first species has the stalk upright, six 

 inches high, hairv, and of a purple colour : the 

 leaves ovate, narrowing to the base, connate, 

 toothed, veined, in \\ inter of a purple colour : 

 the floral leaves smaller and shorter : the flow ers 

 are in whorls one above another, t'orniing in the 

 vholc a spike : the calyx is hair\', nerved, and 

 blueish : the corolla blue with white veins. It 

 flowers from May to June, or longer. 



Tht-re arc two varieties of this plant — one with 

 ■Vkhitc flowers, and the other witli pale purple 

 flowers. 



The second species sends up many stems, 

 vhich are simple, or but little branched, decum- 

 bent with the ends standing up, four or five 

 inches in length : the root-leaves many, larger 

 than those on the stem, all pctiolate, of an oval 

 oblong form : the whole plant is villous : the 

 flowers arc in whorls, small and blue. 



The third has a single stem, four or five 

 inches in height, and very hairy, clothed with 

 leaves pointing four ways : root-leaves oblong- 

 wedge-shaped, sessile, entire : stem-leaves oval 

 or oblong-obovate, slightly toothed or scolloped, 

 not three-lobed, but diminishing upwards, so 

 as to give the whole plant somewhat of a pyra- 

 midal form ; the upper ones tinged with purple : 

 the bractea; longer than the flowers, which are 

 axillary, not more than three together : the ca- 

 lyx very hair)- : the corolla narrow, t\\ ice as 

 long as the calyx, and hairy at the tip ; it has 

 no runners. It flowers in April, or later in this 

 climate. It is a native of most parts^of Europe. 



There are two varieties of it — one with red 

 flowers, and the other with white flowers. 



The fourth species approaches near to the com- 

 mon sort, but the leaves are downy, and the 

 calyxes very rough. It grows wild about Geneva, 

 as well as in many of the southern countries of 

 Europe. 



There arc two varieties of this plant ; one w ith 

 w hite, the other with red flowers. 



The fifth has the stem a foot and a half in 

 height, upriglit, perennial, and of a brownish 

 purple colour. ']"he leaves are ovate, sharpish, 

 crenate, and tonicntose underneath. The flowers 

 are of a purplish cast, terminating and axillary, 

 in spikes. The calyx is sharp, hirsute, converg- 

 ing ; the corolla having scarcely any upper lip, 

 but two very small divaricating scc:inents, ad- 

 hering, on each side to the lower lip, which is 

 trifid. It was brought from the Levant. 



There is a variety of this plant which has blue 

 flowers. 



The sixth species has the leaves much longer 

 than those of the common sort : the stalks are 



weaker, and decline on every side ; and the 

 whorls of flowers are much smaller, and more 

 distant : it varies from the second, in having the 

 leaves wrinkled, more ovate and crowded, hir- 

 sul;;, the petioles being shorter and broader, the 

 spike proceeding inmiediately from the root. — 

 At the top of the root are circles of leaves, 

 whence arise leafv stems, four or six inches 

 high. The leaves are ovate, hirsute, hispid, w ith 

 three strong nerves. From each axil proceed 

 three flowers; of which the two side ones are 

 en shorter peduncles. The calyx is inflated, 

 divided beyond the middle, two-lipped, the two 

 ujjper segments approximating. Two obtuse 

 toothlets form the upper lip of the corolla : the 

 lower lip has the large middle segment rose-co- 

 loured with purple lines. The whole stem is 

 hirsute, flower-bearing, and leafy ; the fiov^ers 

 being concealed among the leaves, of a deep blue, 

 not white colour; the bracteoe green, not co- 

 loured. It grow s naturally on the Alps. 



Culture. — These arc plants that require but 

 little care in their cultivation, especially the four 

 first species. As they all of them send oft" nu- 

 merous side shoots, they may be readily propa- 

 gated by means of them. These may be tr.ken 

 off", and planted out, either in the autumn or 

 spring, in such borders or other situations as 

 have rather a moist soil, and a slight degree of 

 shade. The latter period is, however, in general, 

 to be preferred. 



As the plants are apt to spread out considera- 

 bly, they require to be cut in occasionally ; w hich 

 is all the after culture that will be necessary. 



The fifth and sixth species, as they send olF 

 side shoots much more sparingly, mav be more 

 easily and expeditiously raised by means of 

 tiie seeds, which should be sown in pots of good 

 loamy earth, immediately after they become ripe, 

 and be then placed in a moist shady situation 

 till the autumn, when they must be removed 

 under a frame. In the early spring, as soon 

 as the plants are in a proper state ot vigorous 

 growth, they should be transplanted into sepa- 

 rate pots, filled with good loamy mould, and set 

 cut in some shady place during the summer sea- 

 son, being removed on the approach of winter, 

 under a common frame, and exposed as much 

 as possible to the open air when the weather is 

 mild ; but in case ot frost, be protected by the 

 classes, or some other covering. 

 - ALATERNUS. See Rhamnis. 



ALBUCA, Ba-ilard Star of' Bct/ile/iem, a ge- 

 nus which furnishes diflerent bulbous-rooted 

 herbaceous perennial plants of the flowery or- 

 namental kind. 



It belongs to the class and order of Hexandrin 

 Miinogijnia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Litiacece. 



