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entirely, and forms a sort of bulbous hybernacle under ground: this 

 circumstance is necessary to be known, as it subjects the plant to be 

 thrown away as dead. It flowers in June and July; arid is a native 

 of Siberia. 



The seventh, in its farinaceous tendency, accords with the eighth 

 sort, but is very unlike it in its wild state, the leaves being much 

 narrower: the flowers larger, and of a different colour: the colour of 

 the flowers approaches to that of lilac: it becomes mealy, particularly 

 on the edges of the leaves, between the senatures, where it is so 

 strong as to make the leaf appear with a white or silvery edge. It 

 is a delicate pretty plant, with a pleasing musky smell, and flowers 

 in March and April. It is probably a native of the Alps. 



The eighth species has the leaves fleshy, succulent, with the 

 edges mealy, seriated; or entire, according to some deeply and 

 equally toothed all round, as others affirm ; while some say that the 

 young leaves are entire: the adult ones serrate above the middle: 

 the petioles leafy or winged: the leaflets of the involucre unequal, 

 wide, lanceolate or blunt: the flowers very sweet, four or five in an 

 upright umbel; the calyx one-third of the length of the tube of the 

 corolla, bell-shaped, toothed, mealy, as is also the scape: the lube 

 of the corolla gradually widening upwards, not contracted at the 

 neck: the border concave: the segments emarginale but not deeply* 

 and not cut to the neck: the most common colours are yellow or 

 red, but it is found also purple and variegated, with a white eye 

 powdered with meal: capsule spherical or nearly so, flatted a little 

 at top, of a coriaceous-cartilaginous substance, sprinkled with meal. 

 It is a native of the mountains of Switzerland, Austria, &c. flowering 

 in April and May. 



It varies much in the leaves and flowers; as the oblong-leaved; 

 roundish-leaved; broad-leaved; narrow-leaved; green-leaved; while 

 or meal-leaved; the purple-flowered, of various shades and variega- 

 tions; red-flowered, with different shades and variegations; yellow- 

 flowered, of different shades; double purple-flowered; double yellow- 

 flowered; variegated purples, &c. 



With regard to the properties of a fine auricula, they are these 



