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lour, much larger than those of the common sort, and stand upon 

 short foot-stalks. It flowers in July, but the seeds rarely ripen in 

 this climate, which makes the plants scarce. It is a native of 

 Crete, &c. 



The twelfth is a biennal or perennial plant, which rises with an 

 upright, branching stalk from three to four feet high, having spear- 

 shaped, alternate leaves, ending in acute points, and of a grayish 

 colour. The flowers are produced at the end of the branches, id 

 loose panicles: they are of a bright yellow colour. It is a native of 

 Siberia, &c. - 



In the thirteenth the root is biennial : the stem from a foot or 

 eighteen inches to two and even three feet in height, upright, round, 

 solid, smooth at bottom, but pubescent higher up: the leaves are 

 lanceolate or ovate, blunt, the lower mostly opposite, the upper 

 inclined to be alternate: the flowers in a spike, pointing one way, 

 large and handsome, on a very short, hairy peduncle, supported by a 

 short, concave, acuminate bracte: the nectary obtuse, scarcely pro- 

 minent: the capsule obliquely opening at top, unequal at the base; 

 vulgarly compared in shape to a calf's head: the tops of the stalks 

 and the calyxes are usually viscid. It is a native of the south of 

 Europe, and flowers in June and July. 



There are a great many varieties, as with red, 3'ellow, purple and 

 white flowers, red with white or yellow mouths, white and red, yel- 

 low and red, yellow and white, purple and white, purple with yellow 

 mouths, with scarlet dotted with gold colour, with double flowers, 

 and variegated leaves. 



The fourteenth species is a biennial, or at most a triennial plant, 

 which frequently perishes soon after the seeds are ripened. The 

 stem is erect, two feet high, branching, terminated with a long thin 

 spike: the stern-leaves small and three-parted, sometimes live-parted, 

 very different from the broad, serrate, radical ones: the bracles one- 

 flowered, linear, long, sometimes (rifid: the flowers very small, on 

 short peduncles, in a very long raceme, containing frequently an 

 hundred flowers: the segments of the calyx almost capillary: the 

 corolla blue, nodding, quinquefid, two of the divisions erect, three 



