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were edged with white; they are placed very closely upon the stalks: 

 the flowers are of a bright scarlet, and seldom more than five or six 

 in number: it flowers late in July, and in cool seasons continues in 

 beauty great part of August. It is remarked by Linnaeus, that the 

 raceme, before the flowers open, is scarcely curved in, as in the fifth 

 sort, and that the stem is clothed with clustered leaves to the very 

 top. It is a native of the Levant. 



According to Mr. Curtis, it varies in the number of flowers, from 

 one to six, and the colour in some is of a blood red: also with deep 

 scarlet flowers, with purple flowers, and with large bunches of 

 flowers. 



The seventh has a round stem, very smooth and even, panicled at 

 top, two feet high and more; the branches alternate, divaricating, 

 upright, like the stem, reflex at top, flower-bearing: the stem-leaves 

 alternate, subpetioled, folded together at the base, ovate-oblong, 

 acute, quite entire, smooth, five-nerved beneath, spreading; one 

 flower at the end of each branch: the corollas are large and hand- 

 some: the petals oblong, acute, white with large purple spots and 

 smaller black ones from the middle to the base: nectareous keel 

 bearded: according to Catesby the flowers grow alternately on long 

 footstalks, and are of an orange and lemon colour, thick spotted 

 with dark brown ; but Miller says they are produced in form of a 

 pyramid, and when the roots are strong there are forty or fifty on a 

 stalk, large, yellow with dark spots, and make a fine appearance, 

 but smell so disagreeably, that few persons can endure to be near 

 them : they appear at the end of June. It is a native of North 

 America. 



The eighth species has oblong and large bulbs: the stems from 

 four to five feet high: the leaves oblong and pointed: the flowers 

 large, yellow spoiled with black, shaped like those of the orange lily, 

 and the petals not turned back so much as in the olher Martagons: 

 they come out in the beginning of August, and, when the roots are 

 large, in great numbers, making a fine appearance. According to 

 Catesby, on the top of the stem are about twelve pendulous flowers 

 on long arched peduncles, and the petals are reflected very 



