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The third species has numerous barren stems, reclining and pulling 

 forth roots, the flowering stems from six to eight inches high, colum- 

 nar below, square at top, slender, weak, but usually erect, some- 

 times simple, sometimes branched or dichotomous, swollen at the 

 joints, slightly pubescent: the leaves are in pairs at each joint, linear 

 or subulate, nearly the length of the internode, converging to the slalk, 

 and embracing it at the base, slightly pubescent; those of the barren 

 branches narrower: the peduncles are round, downy, from the ends 

 of the stem and branches, single, or two from the same joint, each 

 bearing one flower: the petals are toothed at the edge, bright red 

 above, pale beneath; but according to Ray reddish, with a ring of 

 deeper-coloured dots surrounding the eye; with dark purplish teeth 

 near the throat, and beset with while silvery points, with hairs pro- 

 ceeding from them: the petals vary much in colour, being some- 

 times of a very pale flesh colour, sometimes deep red, but always 

 marked with a ring of deeper red dots near the centre of the flower. 

 It is a native of Sweden, &c. 



There is a cultivated variety in gardens with white flowers, with 

 a beautiful purple ring, and leaves rather more glaucous than in the 

 common sort. 



The fourth species has the stems ascending, a foot or eighteen 

 inches in height, and branched : the leaves of a grayish or glaucous 

 hue, a line and half wide, very sharp at the end: the flowers one, 

 two, seldom three, at the ends of the branches, and sweet-scented: 

 the calyx is of a glaucous-green, longer than in the other species : 

 the petals large, light red or bright purple, sometimes white, with a 

 circle of red; deeply jagged, having a red down at the base of the 

 lamina or border. It is a native of Europe; flowering from June to 

 August, and is perennial. 



The fifth, according to Dr. Smith, has a woody root: the stalks 

 several, a span high, erect, simple, smooth, quadrangular, having 

 two or three pair of leaves on them, one-flowered, scarcely ever two- 

 flowered: the leaves are linear-lanceolate, bluntish, glaucous: the 

 scales of the calyx only one third of the length of the tube, ovate- 

 roundish, bluntly mucronate and striated : the petals are flesh-coloured, 



