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axil or bracte ; the corollas small ; the style longer than the corolla. 

 It is a native of Pennsylvania, flowering in July. 



There are varieties, with single white, wilh single blue, and with 

 double blue flowers. 



The tenth is a shrubby ornamental plant, a native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, flowering here in August. 



In the eleventh species the whole plant is full of a milky juice: 

 the root is biennial, spindle-shaped, sometimes branching: the stem 

 upright, angular, two feet high, hairy towards the base, smooth 

 above : branches alternate, short, upright : the leaves towards the 

 base of the stem hairy above or on both sides, blunt; the upper ones 

 smooth, and becoming gradually more pointed; obscurely notched: 

 teeth glandular, whitish, not projecting beyond the edge of the leaf: 

 there is an awl-shaped bracte at the base of each peduncle: the seg- 

 ments of the calyx are awl-shaped, or setaceous, twice as long as the 

 germ, wilh a small tooth on each side of the base: the flowers are 

 upright: the corolla blueish purple, sometimes very pale purple 

 or whitish ; each segment marked with three lines : the nectary 

 fringed. It grows wild in France, c,, flowering in June, July, and 

 August. 



The fleshy roots are eatable, and are much cultivated in France 

 for salads. 



Culture. The plants in this extensive genus are mostly hardy, 

 and increased with little difficulty. The six first sorts, and their 

 varieties, are all capable of being raised by dividing the rools in the 

 autumn or early spring, and planting them out on the beds, borders, 

 or other parts. The former is, however, the better season for the 

 purpose, as the roots become better established before they begin to 

 shoot up into stem. They thrive in almost any soil or situation. As 

 the plants of the steeple bell-flower, trained for adorning halls and 

 chimneys, are seldom proper for the purpose the following season 

 after being planted out, a supply of young plants should be annually- 

 raised. And though this is mostly done by offsets, as being the 

 quickest mode, the plants raised from seed are always stronger; the 



