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feet high : the lower leaves a hand wide, on 

 long petioles ; the upper ones smaller, on 

 shorter petioles ; the uppermost very small, al- 

 most sessile : all obscurely angular, sinuate, 

 bi ioht green, pubescent : the flowers sessile in the 

 axils, over the whole stem and branches, small 

 in proportion to so large a plant. It is a na- 

 tive of Syria, flowering from June to Au- 

 gust. 



The eighth is likewise an annual plant, with 

 stalks about a foot long, smooth, and declining: 

 the leaves on pretty long footstalks : the flowers 

 single from the axils, and at the top in clusters: 

 the calyxes large, acute : the corollas small, 

 pale blue. It is a native of Egypt, flowering 

 in June and July. 



The ninth has the root long, branched, and 

 perennial : the stem from two to three feet high, 

 found, rugged, hairy: hairs in bundles, spread- 

 in^ : brandies alternate : the leaves alternate, 

 semiorbicular, five-parted to the base, with the 

 lobes oblong, three- or five-parted, bright green, 

 whitish underneath, pubescent, somewhat rug- 

 ced : the petioles round, with very small awl-shap- 

 ed stipules atthehase: the flowers terminating, in 

 panicles or bundles : the calyx small in propor- 

 tion t<> the size of the corolla, pubescent ; 

 outer small, inner much larger: the corolla an 

 inch and half or two inches long, live-parted to 

 the base, bright purple; with blunt two-lobed 

 segments. It is a native of many parts of 

 Europe. 



The tenth species has root-leaves roundish, 

 kidney shaped, entire, except being crenate on 

 the margin: the first stem-leaves three- lobed, 

 divided half way down : side-lobes divided 

 a^ain into two or three, but not so deeply : 

 above these they are threc-lobed to the foot- 

 stalk : lobes again deeply divided ; divisions 

 deeply jagged : higher ones five-lohed, lobes 

 pinnatifid, segments of the upper ones more 

 divided, and narrower ; uppermost linear : the 

 stem round, much branched, slightly hairy: 

 at the orisr'ui of each branch, two lanceolate 

 hairy stipules : the flowers crowded on the top 

 of the stem and branches on short peduncles, 

 and single ones from the axils of the upper 

 leaves : petals heart-shaped, divided nearly to 

 the base, pale red or flesh-coloured, with deeper 

 veins. It differs from the ninth sort, with 

 which it has been confounded, in having the 

 stem not so tall, with solitary upright hairs 

 rising from a prominent little point: the arils 

 rough with hairs : the flowers of an ambrosial 

 or musky scent : the musky smell is not how- 

 ever always to be perceived. Mr. Curtis, on 

 cultivating both species together, found the 

 ninth grow nearly to twice the height of this^ 



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and to be in every respect a stronger plant, and' 

 harsher to the touch. It is a native of many 

 parts of Europe. 



The eleventh rises with a woody stalk ten or 

 twelve feet high, sending out branches from 

 the side, the whole length : the stalks and 

 branches are closely covered with hairs : the 

 leaves are hairy, indented, on their sides, so as 

 to have the appearance of a trilobate leaf : those 

 on the voung plants are three inches long and 

 two broad at their base : but as the plants grow 

 older, they are scarcely half that size : the flowers 

 come out from the side of the branches, upon 

 peduncles an inch long; they are of a deep 

 red colour, shaped like those of the common 

 mallow, but smaller. It flowers great part of 

 the year, and is a native of the Cape. 



There are varieties in which the stems are 

 thicker and higher, of a brownish red colour: the 

 leaves hirsute, broader, with wider segments, less 

 deeply cut, but with the toothlets sharper and 

 serrate : the whorls of fruit a little larger, and 

 not muricated; and in which the hairs of the 

 leaves and stem are simple, not compound : 

 the flowers almost upright, not drooping. 



Culture. — The ten first sorts are all capable 

 of being raised from seeds, which, in the hardy 

 kinds, should be sown in the situations where 

 the plants are to grow, in patches of four or 

 five in each, in the spring or beginning of au- 

 tumn, covering them to the depth of halt an 

 inch. They may likewise be sown upon a bed 

 of fine earth, and be afterwards removed to the 

 places where they are to flower. Those which 

 are natives of hot climates, should be sown in 

 pots and plunged in a hot bed. 



When the plants in the two latter modes 

 have attained some growth, they should be re- 

 niovedinto their proper situations, or into other 

 pots, to be afterwards managed according to the 

 difference of the kinds. 



The last sort and varieties may be raised also 

 bv seed, which should be sown upon a hot- bed, 

 of in pots and plunged in it. When the plants 

 have attained some growth, they should be re- 

 moved into separate pots, replunging them in 

 the hot-bed till fresh rooted, when they should 

 be gradually inured to the full air, managing 

 them afterwards in the same manner as otlur 



exotics of the green-house kind 



The hardy sorts afford a pleasing variety in 

 the shrubbery and other parts, while those of 

 the more tender and shrubby kind produce a 

 good effect in the green-house, and among 

 potted collections. 



MAMMEA, a genus containing plants of 

 the evergr- i n exotic tree kind. 



It ranks in the class and or.ler Polygamiu 



