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long tubes; they are yellow, with saffron-coloured chaps. It flowers 

 in July and August, and the seeds ripen in autumn. It grows na- 

 turally in Sicily. 



There are varieties of this with a purple standard and spur; and 

 with purple flowers. 



In the fourth species the root is perennial: the stem two feet, 

 high, round and smooth: the leaves smooth, and marked with three 

 nerves underneath, spreading, alternate: the lower verticillate: the 

 racemes are terminal, simple, erect, long, with pedicels longer than 

 the flower: the calyx minute: the corolla all purple, paler without, 

 with the palate pubescent at the edge; spur the length of the corolla, 

 bending outwards: the capsule subglobular: the seeds three-sided- 

 angular, or a little compressed: the angles acute, margined, smooth, 

 and vernacularly wrinkled between them ; the colour of smoke. It 

 is a native of Italy. 



The fifth has a perennial root, from which arise many branching 

 stalks near two feet high, with very narrow leaves growing in clus- 

 ters, and of a grayish colour. The flowers are produced in loose 

 spikes at the end of the branches; they are of a pale blue, and have 

 a sweet smell. These appear in June; and there is often a succes- 

 sion of flowers on the plants till winter: the bractes are lanceolate, 

 one at the base of each peduncle: the corolla pale blue, with darker 

 spots; spur nearly as long as the body of the corolla: the calyx very 

 small, and the segments acute. 



In the sixth species the stem is a foot high, quite smooth, pani- 

 cled, erect, but not very stiff, with wand-like branches. Primordial 

 leaves, before the stalk shoots up, ternate, oblong; the rest alternate, 

 awl-shaped, channelled, smooth, fleshy, and straight; the flowers are 

 racemose: the calyxes smooth, or rather somewhat villose: the co- 

 rollas yellow: the palate smooth, with a tinge of red in the reluse 

 elevation of it. 



The seventh has several smooth stems, eight or nine inches long, 

 usually decumbent: the leaves rather fleshy, convex and glaucous: 

 the calyx and bractes only pubescent: the corolla very dark purple, 



