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bunches of flowers, and in having larger, rounder, and more heart- 

 shaped leaves/' 



The fourth species has the leaves all radical, aggregate in tufts, 

 spreading, running down into the petiole, even and quite smooth, 

 often purple beneath : the scape a span high, erect, red, hairy, 

 many-flowered, with a few small alternate bractes: the flowers up- 

 right: the calyx finally reflexed: the petals obovate-lanceolate, white 

 or flesh-coloured, most beautifully dotted with yellow and dark red: 

 the germ altogether superior, rose-coloured: the capsule ventricose, 

 tipped with purple. It is a native of Ireland and England, flower- 

 ing in June and July. It has the names of None-so-pretty, and 

 London Pride. 



The fifth has long slender fibrous roots, throwing many procum- 

 bent leafy shoots, which grow matted together, forming thick tufts: 

 from the common origin of these arises a solitary erect round stem, 

 bearing two or three straggling linear undivided leaves, and termi- 

 nating in an upright panicle of a few large white flowers: the leaves 

 are alternate, linear, acute, pale green, smooth, their edges only 

 often hairy with soft white woolly threads: the leaves on the shoots 

 simple and undivided; those at the bottom of the stem all deeply 

 three-cleft, with the segments divaricate. According to Withering, 

 the slem, fruitstalks, and calyx are thickly set with short hairs ter- 

 minated by red globules, and the rest of the plant thinly set with fine 

 white hairs. It is a native of Britain, flowering in May, and often 

 again sparingly in July and August. 



The sixth species has the root-leaves petioled, cordate-suborbi- 

 cular, hairy, crenate, with blunt lobules, oleraceous, having white 

 veins on the upper surface, beneath liver-coloured : the petioles 

 roundish, longer than the leaf: the stem herbaceous, round, a foot 

 and half high, almost leafless, pubescent, as the whole herb is, with 

 hairs standing out; the whole raceme compound, the partial racemes 

 drooping at the end before they flower. Branched runners proceed 

 in abundance from the axils of the root-leaves, terminating in root- 

 ing off-sets: three of the petals are smaller, whitish stained with red; 

 two larger, white. It is observed, that " its round variegated leaves, 



