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Mile: the stalks are erect, about a fool and a hall high, with leav. 

 about, three inches long, ;nnl :m inch and hall broad in ihc middle, 

 on very short petioles and placed alternately : the stalk is terminated 

 by it spike (raceme) of (lowers, ol' an exceeding healthful scarlet. 

 Colour; they have a pretty long Inhc, which is a hllle incurved, and 

 at llic lop they are cut longitudinally into live segments ; (he two 

 upper, which are the smallest, arc greatly relieved ; the three under, 

 which form the IOVUT lip, arc longer, nnd spread open. They appear 

 :il the end of .Inly and in August, \\hcn liny make a line; appearance 

 for a month or more, and when ihe autumn proves favourable product' 

 1 1 seeds. It grows naturally iu Norlh America. 



Tin- second species has a perennial root: the stem simple, 

 from a fool to, luo feel m heij.dil, and upu a ids, strong, simple, smooth, 

 with angles formed by ihe decurrcnl. edgei of the leaves having Klill- 

 ish hairs on them: the leaves arc alternate, sessile, somewhat rugged: 

 the flowers axillary, solitary, numerous, large, on short, peduncles, 

 lorming altogether a long spike of a p:de blue colour. It is a nalnc 

 of Virginia, flowering from August lo October. 



The third is an annual herbaceous elegant plant, seldom abovr 

 fourleen or sixteen inches in height ; the whole of it rough-bain d 

 the stem almost upright, very much branched from all the axils: llie, 

 leaves are alternate, sessile, suhpiunalilid loolhcd, sharpish, .smooth, 

 half a fool long: the peduncles one-flowered, axillary, solitary, vil- 

 lose. The whole plant is poisonous. It is a nalae of Jamaica, 

 flowering from June to August. 



The fourth species is a shrubby, upright, branched plant, the 

 brunches surrounded with abundance of narrow sharp leaves an inch 

 in length : the (lowers many, small, blue, at the tops of the twigs, 

 among the leaves. Jl is a native of the ( 'ape of ( iood I lope. 



The fifth is a biennial plan), in this climate: the slcnr, channelled, 

 hairy, two feel, high: the leaves about two incln-. ln, and one bioad in 

 the middle, sessile, light green: (lowers small, on long, slender, axil- 

 lary peduncles, forming a loose spike: the corolla li ;hl. blue. It 

 flouers in July, anil is a native of Virginia, t vc. 





