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top of the slalk: the corolla is white: the stamens longer than the 

 corolla. It is very distinct from the second sort by its size, five- 

 valved capsules, white flowers, and leaves without dots. It is a 

 native of Spain, flowering from July to September. 



The second species is an annual (biennial) plant, too tender for 

 the open air of this climate: it agrees with the first sort in habit, 

 structure, and glaucous colour: it has no dots under the leaves: the 

 petals are acuminate, a little longer than the calyx, converging, and 

 deep red: the stamens are longer than the corolla, with brown an- 

 thers: and the flowers sessile in a spike. It is nearly allied to the 

 first sort, and is a native of the Levant, flowering in July and August. 



The third has the stern erect, four-cornered, smooth: the leaves 

 quite entire, acute, smooth, dotted: the racemes simple: the pedi- 

 cels in a sort of whorl, filiform, an inch long: the bractes lanceolate, 

 very short: the divisions of the calyx lanceolate, smooth, dotted with 

 red: the petals three times as long as the calyx, yellow, with red 

 stripes and dots, and two dark-red spots: the stamens shorter than 

 the corolla. It is a native of North America, flowering in July and 

 August. 



Culture. These may all be easily increased either by sowing the 

 seeds in the autumn, as soon as they are fully ripened, on a moist 

 border, with an eastern aspect; or by parting the roots, and planting 

 them out at the same season, in the same situations. 



The plants should afterwards be kept clean, and in the first 

 method removed into the situations where they are to remain in the 

 autumn. 



In the second sort the seeds should be sown on a hot-bed. 



The third sort is increased by planting the bulbs thrown out from 

 the axils of the leaves. 



They all aftbrd ornament and variety in the borders and other 

 parts of pleasure-grounds. 



