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from the end-shoots being near each other, but scattered and bare; 

 those from the small lateral branches generally in pairs. It is a 

 native of the middle parts of Europe, flowering from June to 

 August. 



The third has twisted, trailing stems: the branches between 

 scored and singular, light reddish brown ; the more slender shoots 

 ash-coloured, all lateral, to seven or more rising from the same point 

 in the manner of an umbel; when beginning to flower, gradually 

 tapering towards the end: the leaves are linear, somewhat like those 

 of fir, bowed sideways, smooth, but not glossy, somewhat pointed, 

 when magnified appearing to have distant serratures on the edge, 

 which is bent in; upper surface green, slightly elevated in the middle; 

 under whitish, convex, with a smooth furrow running along it, longer, 

 and sometimes thrice as long as the corolla, and crowded so close as 

 to conceal the younger shoots: the flowers roundish, on long slender 

 peduncles, from the sides of the branches, beginning from below the 

 middle, and extending to the ends, continuing on, in the cultivated 

 plants, till the next season. It is a native of Britain. 



The fourth species is an upright shrub, growing to the height of 

 six feet, with upright branches covered with a white nap: the leaves 

 are very abundant, upright, smooth, almost awl-shaped, covering the 

 branches, wrinkled when dry: the flowers very numerous, on the 

 middle of the branches, so that the later leaves are above them; they 

 are on branching peduncles, forming a panicle. It is a native of the 

 South of Europe, flowering from February to May. 



The fifth is an upright rigid shrub, with an ash-coloured bark: 

 the leaves are in threes or fours, linear, obtuse, somewhat rugged on 

 the edge: the flowers terminating, two or three, subsessile. It is a 

 native of Spain, flowering in April and May. 



The sixth species has the stem the height of a man: the leaves 

 are in fours or fives, spreading, obtuse, gibbous at the base: the 

 flowers purplish. It is a native of the South of Europe, flowering 

 from June to November. 



The seventh has the branches whitish, and angular: the leaves 

 are in fours, seldom in fives, and even: the flowers lateral, and of a 



