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C I s 



In tliis numerous genus there are other ^pi-- 

 cics that may equally deserve ciiUivaiioii. 



llic first has a slid", slender, woody stem, six 

 or seven ttot high, scmlini out ni.aiy branches 

 the whole length : these and the leaves are 

 hairy ; the calyxes also very hairy : hut the 

 branches and leaves, when furiher advanced, 

 become naked : the leaves are large, of a liglit 

 green colour, sessile, with nianv nerves: the 

 Bowers are produced at the ends ot the branches, 

 on naked peduncles: the corolla is white, and 

 soon drops off; and the petals, according to 

 Linnffius, arc tinged with purple on their edges; 

 the stamens yellow ; and the ealy.\^i«, before (Ik-v 

 tmfold, three-cornered in their appearance. It is 

 an.-uive of I'onu'jal, lli)wering in June and .hdy. 



The second species rises v. ith a strong woudy 

 stem, to the height of tiveor six feet, sending out 

 many erect hairy branches : the leaves are lan- 

 ceolate, acute, thick, dark green above, and 

 white beneath, very glutinous m warm we;ither; 

 bm, according to Linnteus, w rinkled, green on 

 bolli sides, and scarce visibly hairy ; the petioles 

 becoming purple at the base : the flowers are 

 produced at the ends of the branehts upon long 

 naked peduncles, branching ou their sides iiUo 

 smaller ones, each sustaining one large while 

 flower with a hairy calvx. It flowers in June 

 and July, and is a native of Spain. 



The third grows to the height of five or six 

 feet, with a strong woody stem, sending out 

 m.mv hairv branches : the leaves are smooth on 

 then- upper side, but veined on their under, on 

 short foot-stalks which join at their base, where 

 they form a sort of sheath to the branch : the 

 corolla is white, the size of the officinal Poppy : 

 thegermhas ten swellings: stigma sessile, with- 

 out any style. It is a native of Spain, kc. It 

 flowers from Jime till August. 



Mr. Curtis objects to the propriety of the name 

 faJa/iifoTjs, as it is not the plant from wliieli 

 Uuhiuim is proiluced, though in a warmer cli- 

 mate it affords a gum of a similar kind. 



There are varieties w ith large white flow crs, 

 and a purple spot in the middle of the petal, and 

 w ith entire white flowers. 



The fourth speciis has a shrubby stctn, 

 branchinor to a large liushv head, three or four 

 feet hi^li": the branches villose: the leaves arc 

 not at all nerved, ending in a point, a little 

 flexnose in the disk, ending at the base in coa- 

 lescent sheathing petioles, or rather obovatc- 

 spatulate; the lower niore connate, and in a 

 m.anner sheathing: the calyxes hairy, with sub- 

 cordate kaflcis: the petals purple, cm.irginate or 

 obcortlate, quite entire and concave. It is a 

 native of Spain. 



'^-he fifth species is an upright shrub, three or 



li.'ur feet high : the branches arc rounil, ash- 

 coloured, anuulai at top, the younger oiks doitpcl 

 wiih yellow: the leaves are pctioled, oppn.ito,' 

 lanicolaic, very while, scarcely soft, wiihonv 

 veins, obtuse, ifai, about an inch in Icncth : \W 

 peduncle lermin^iting, compound, white; sup- 

 porting three (M-foiir brSi'.lUvellow (lowers, which 

 a]>iKar in June and July. It is a native of I'or- 

 f.iL-nl. 



Tliore are varieties with numerous leaves .md 

 siilpinir-eoloured Howci.-, and w iih yellow flow- 

 ers with purple spots in their bases.' 



The sisth rises with a slender stem, from three 

 (o four feel high, seiuiing out manv hniry 

 branches from the bottom ilpwards : the leaves 

 are very dark green, in warm weather covered 

 with a glutinous sweet-scented substance: the 

 peduncles, which come out at the ends of th<; 

 branches, are long, naked, .and sustain many 

 white flowers, rising above each other; their 

 calyxes arc bordered, and end in sharp |>niiiis. 

 It flowers fro)n June to August, and is a native 

 of Narbonne. 



There is a variety with olive-shaped leaves 

 and sulphur-coloured flowers. 



'i'he seventh species is branching, diffused, a 

 foot and half high and more: the stem and 

 branches round, and somewhat villose : the 

 leaves I'rom broad siein-clasping, petiolcd, first 

 spatulate, then o'.atc or lanceolate, somewhat 

 acute, wrinkled, sonietiuies waved, ronghish, 

 thiekish, quite entire, viscid, closely set on both 

 sides and round the edge with white hairs of 

 diflercnt lengths, some simple, others branched 

 or headed, scarcely visible I;) the naked eye ; 



J eye ; 

 e last 



peduncles one-flowered, terminating th 

 leafy twigs, erect and villose : the flow ers of a 

 rose purple-colour : these appear in June and 

 July, and the seeds ripen in September. It is a 

 f\ative of the Levant. 



This is the species from whicit the drug called 

 Uuhininu is procured. 



The eighth has a shrubby stem, branchinir 

 from bottom five or six feet in height : much re- 

 sembling the fourth, but dilfcriuii' in the branches 

 being tomentose, not hairy : the]eavesjjaler,soft, 

 horizontal, sessile, bv no means either petioled or 

 shealhinsr, broad-lanceolate, mostly three-nervid : 

 the flowers long from the branches, of a bright 

 purple colour: it is a native of Narbonne, Sec. 



In the ninth, the branches arc weak, slender, 

 woody, spreading horizontally : it is seldom more 

 than two or three feet in height: the pedunc!e> 

 and caivxes arc co\ered with a thin wool : tin- 

 flow ers are of a pur])le or w bite colour, appear- 

 ing in June and the follow uig month. It is a 

 native of I'oriugal. 



The tenlli has a slender, smouih stem, c«- 

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