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the disposition of the leaves in five or six rows may be best observed 

 by viewing the plant with the ends of the branches opposed t6 the 

 eye: the panicle subcymed, many-flowered, with the branchlets 

 scarcely retiexed: the flowers of a bright yellow or gold colour, often 

 six-cleft. It is a native of England and Wales, &c. perennial, 

 flowering in July. 



This, as well as the above, is cultivated in Holland and Germany 

 to mix with lettuces in salads. 



The tenth has a slender, fibrous, perennial root: the stems seve- 

 ral, a hand high, rec'ining at the base, and then erect, round, tinged 

 with red: the leaves, on the flowering stems, pale green dotted with 

 purple, oblong, thickish, round on one side and flat on the other; 

 towards the top, under the flowers, more swelling and shorter: 

 leaves on young plants or barren shoots, in bundles, glaucous, with- 

 out any purple dots, thinner, from a narrow base widening gradually, 

 and ending in a blunt point: the stems divide at top into a few 

 branchlets, forming a sort of umbel, (or rather cyme) bearing sessile, 

 star-like white flowers, stained with pale purple from a purple 

 groove running along the petals: these are six, sometimes seven in 

 number, keeled and cusped. It is a native of Spain and Carinthia, 

 flowering in July. 



The eleventh species has a perennial, fibrous root: the stems 

 decumbent at bottom, and there throwing out fibres; flowering stems 

 upright, from three inches to a span in height, round, leafy, branched, 

 smooth : the leaves scattered thinly, spreading out horizontally, ses- 

 sile, cylindrical, very blunt, smooth, fleshy, somewhat glaucous and 

 generally reddish: panicle terminating, alternately branched, sub- 

 cymose, many-flowered, smooth. It is a native of Europe, on rocks, 

 walls and roofs, flowering in July. 



It is eaten by some as a pickle. 



The twelfth has also a perennial, fibrous root: the stems nume- 

 rous, growing in tufts, much b'anched, decumbent, and creeping at 

 the base, then upright, three inches high, smooth, round", very leafy: 

 the leaves closely imbricate, blunt, flatted a little, from upright 

 spreading, loose at the base: the cymes terminating, solitary, few- 



