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two feet high and upwards, upright, simple or unbranched, leafy, 

 round, smooth, solid, reddish and often dotted with red: the leaves 

 almost covering the stem, sessile, ovate, fleshy, tooth-serrate, smooth 

 and even, of a blueish-green colour: the corymbs terminating, 

 many-flowered, close or heaped together: the flowers deep purple, 

 very rarely white in this climate, though that seems to be the most 

 common colour in some foreign countries. It is a native of 

 Portugal. 



There are several varieties, as with purple flowers, with white 

 flowers, with broad leaves, and the Greater Orpine. 



The second species has fibrous perennial roots: the stems trailing: 

 the leaves standing alternate round the stems, almost an inch long, 

 and half an inch broad: the flowers in a compact corym, sitting 

 close on the top of the stem: they are star-shaped, of a purple 

 colour, and appear in July. It is an evergreen ; and a native of 

 Germany. 



The third has a perennial root, composed of many thick fleshy 

 fibres, from which come out several stalks rising near a foot high : 

 the leaves are alternate on every side, thick, two inches and a half 

 long, and three quarters of an inch broad, and slightly serrate: the 

 flowers bright yellow. It is a native of Siberia, flowering from July 

 to September. 



The fourth species has the leaves cordate, thick and fleshy: the 

 stem herbaceous, branched, erect, patulous, even, a fool high: the 

 leaves alternate, remote, only at the ramifications, blunt, fleshy, 

 smooth. When it grows in an open situation, exposed to the sun, 

 the leaves and stalks become of a bright red colour. It is a native 

 of Siberia, and the only hardy Seclum cultivated with us that has a 

 shrubby stalk: the leaves are deciduous. It flowers in July and 

 August, and is proper for a rock plant. 



The fifth is a low annual plant: the stalks rise three inches high, 

 dividing at top into two or three parts: the flowers come out singly 

 from the side of the stalk; are white, star- pointed, and succeeded by 

 star-pointed rough capsules. It is a native of Germany, &c. 



The sixth species has also an annual root: the stalks six or seven 



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