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red orange colour, varying to white, blush, and variable, that is, pale 

 red, growing paler till it becomes almost white. It is a native of 

 Russia, &c. 



Besides its varying as above, there is a variety with very double 

 flowers of a beautiful scarlet colour: it has a perennial root, from 

 which arise two, three, or four stalks, according to the strength of 

 the roots, which in rich moist land grow upwards of four feet high; 

 the stalks are strong, erect, and hairy, being garnished the whole 

 length with spear-shaped leaves sitting close to the stalks, placed 

 opposite; and just above each pair of leaves there are four smaller 

 leaves standing round the stalk: the flowers are produced in close 

 clusters sitting upon the top of the stalk: when the roots are strong, 

 the clusters of flowers are very large, and make a fine appearance, 

 coming out the latter end of June, and in moderate seasons continue 

 near a month in beauty. The stalks decay in autumn, and new ones 

 arise in the following spring. 



The second has also a perennial root, bronwish white, subacrid : 

 the stems from one to three feet high, upright, somewhat angular 

 and grooved, swelled at the joints, purplish: they are procumbent, 

 and become upright at the time of flowering: the stem-leaves oppo- 

 site, connate, lanceolate, keeled, upright, smooth: the peduncles 

 opposite, with one generally between them: the calyx ten-angled, 

 of a deep purple colour: the corolla pink or purplish red, varying 

 sometimes to white: the border of the petals dividing into four seg- 

 ments, of which the two outer are shorter and narrower: the claws 

 have two small spear-shaped teeth at the top: the capsule one- 

 celled, the mouth having five teeth which turn back: the seeds 

 flattish, rugged, of a brown ash-colour. It is a native of most parts 

 of Europe, flowering in May and June. 



In the third the whole plant is smooth: the stem simple, round, 

 upright, a foot high: the leaves opposite, embracing, oblong-ovate, 

 acute, entire, an inch or a little more in length : the flowers aggre- 

 gate, about three, sessile: the calyx is ten-angled: the petals are 

 gashed, crenate multifid: the filaments the length of the tube of the 

 corolla, filiform: the germ superior: styles five, much shorter than the 



