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the corolla longer than in the first sort : limb 

 rcvoliiic, livc-ciert, with unequal segments: the 

 capsule clothed with the calyx, membranaceous, 

 knohbccl with the protuberant seeds, ovate, 

 vcniricose at bottom, marked with a depressed 

 streak on each side: the receptacle fungose, 

 scrohiculate, ovatc-oblong, plano-convex, fixed 

 on l)oth sides to the partition : the seeds very 

 numerous, small, compressed a little, incurved 

 or kidney •form, closely scrohiculate, whitish 

 ash-coloured. It is annual, and a native oi' the 

 south of Europe, flowering in August. 



It has the corolla varying with the base dark 

 purple, or green. 



The fourth species is a perennial plant (bien- 

 nial), with weak stalks, which require support : 

 the leaves arc roundish, acutely indented on 

 their edges, and on pretty long foot-stalks : the 

 flowers come out at each joint of the stalk; 

 they arc large, and of a bright yellow, with a 

 dark purple bottom : the style is much longer 

 than the corolla: the stem is hairy, and about a 

 foot high : the petioles very hairy : the leaves 

 lobed, toothletted : the peduncles at the side of 

 the petioles, erect with the flower, but quite 

 bent down when in fruit : the outer lobe of the 

 corolla is larger than the rest, and the lower 

 sinus is cut beyond the limb, and there the 

 purple stamens with the very long pistil issue 

 and hang down. It is a native of Candia, 

 flowering most part of the summer. 



It varies in size and the shade of the colour 

 in the corolla. 



The fifth is an annual plant, a hand in height: 

 the stem oblique, brittle, undivided, having long 

 hairs : the lower leaves entire, upper oblong, 

 toothed, alternate, sparingly hairy, on petioles of 

 the same length with themselves: the peduncles 

 short on the outmost stem, each from the axil 

 of two opposite leaves : the calyxes turbinate, 

 ten-angled, almost the length of the corolla, and 

 broader than its tube, spiny at top : the corolla 

 veliow, with a dark throat, divided on the 

 lower side beyond the limb : the stamens de- 

 clining. It is a native of Persia, flowering in 

 July. 



The sixth species has a perennial root^ the 

 stems a foot high, simple, erect, round, rough- 

 haired : the leaves alternate, pelioled, cordate, 

 lucid-green, veined, rough-haired underneath, 

 the upper ones gradually larger: the flowers in 

 bundles, terminating, peduncled : the calyxes 

 very short, five-toothed, rough-haired : the co- 

 rollas purplish, funnel-form, upright : the sta- 

 mens a little shorter than the corolla, converg- 

 ing : the style the same length with the corolla: 

 the stigma capitate, emarginatc, whitish. It flow- 

 ers early in spring, and is a native of Siberia. 



The seventh has also a perennial root, trans- 

 verse, knobbed, thick, irregular, branched, 

 flexuose, the thickness of tha human thumb : 

 the stem herbaceous, annual, upright, round, 

 smooth (scarcely more than a fool high, accord- 

 ing to some, but even three feet in height, ac- 

 cording to others), the thickness of the humaii 

 finger, trifid and bifid, with dichotomous 

 branches : (the branches only two, according to 

 Linnaius, spreading, and entirely simple ; or, 

 subtrichotomous, with a groove ruiming down 

 from the leaves:) the leaves ovate and oblong, 

 the length of the human finger ; the lower 

 quite entire ; the upper frequently moderately 

 sinuate or repand : according to some, petioled, 

 naked, somewhat wrinkled, spreading; on the 

 stem alternate, solitary ; under the forkings in 

 threes, two of which approximate ; on the 

 branches alternate, but two together on the same 

 tooth or base, one of which is a little less than 

 the other : but, according to others, subovate 

 or lanceolate, entire, except the lower ones, 

 which in gardens at least are sinuate-toothed in 

 front, veined, wrinkled, decurrent ; the lower 

 ones opposite, the rest scattered ; the peduncles 

 one-flowered, pendulous from the axils, weak, 

 two inches long : the calyx smooth, five-toothed, 

 permanent, wider than the fruit, and, as it were, 

 inflated (bell-shaped, five-cleft, awnless) : the 

 corolla three times the length uf the calyx, bell- 

 shaped, slightly five-cleft, blunt, on the outside 

 ferruginous, with a few pale streaks, within yel- 

 low, oblong, large, five-toothed, narrowing at 

 the base into a short tube, yellowish purple, de- 

 ciduous. It is a native of Idria in Friuli, flower- 

 ing in the middle of April. 



Culture. — They are all capable of being raised 

 from seeds, by sowing them in the autumn in 

 the situations where they are to stand. If the 

 seeds be permitted to scatter, they also produce 

 abundance of good plants. 



In the fourth or shrubby sort, the seeds should 

 be sown in pots, when perfectly ripened in the 

 autumn, plunging them in a moderate hot-bed 

 during the winter. When the plants have at- 

 tained some growth in the spring, they should 

 be removed into separate pots, and be replaced in 

 the bed, due shade and water being given. It 

 may also be increased by planting cuttinsrs in a 

 shady border of light earth, in the sunmier sea- 

 son, and when well rooted removing them into 

 separate pots. 



The only culture which the common shorts re- 

 quire is that of being kept clean from weeds, 

 and properly thinned. The second sort succeeds 

 best in a dry warm situation, or when planted iix 

 pots, and protected in the winter season. The 

 fourth sort must be placed so as to have protec- 



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