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bell-form: tube short, thick: border tube-Jjellied, rather thicker than 

 the tube : mouth five-cleft ; thr.oat naked, pervious : the stamina 

 consist of five, subulate filaments, very short: anthers acute, erect: 

 the pistillum is a four-parted germ: style filiform, length of the sta- 

 mens: stigma obtuse: there is no pericarpium: calyx unchanged 

 the seeds two, bony, glossy, sub-ovate, outwardly gibbous, and bilo- 

 cular. 



The -species cultivated is C. major. Great Honey wort. 



It rises with stems eighteen inches high and more, round, smooth, 

 branching, and leafy: the leaves are glaucous, becoming blue by age, 

 smooth, without prickles, but ciliated about the edge, and doited 

 with white: the branches are leafy and nodding; with flowers among 

 the leaves, hanging on long peduncles: the tube of the corolla is yel- 

 low, but ihe border purple. It is a native of Italy, flowering in June 

 and the two following months. 



There are varieties with smooth leaves and purple flowers, and 

 with prickly leaves and yellow flowers. 



Culture, The plants are raised by sowing the seeds annually in 

 the autumn or early spring months in patches in the borders, clumps* 

 or other parts. The autumn sowings should be made as early as 

 possible. They also rise from the self-sown seeds. They should be 

 managed as other hardy annuals. These are plants proper for be- 

 ing planted out about the apiary, or in the small beds or borders. 



