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The species cultivated are: 1. T. tube<-o.suin, Tuberous-rooted 



Meadow Rue ; 2. T. Cornuti, Canadian Meadow Rue; 3. T. fvctiduni, 



Fetid Meadow Rue; 4. T. angustifolium, Narrow-leaved Meadow 



Rue; 5. T. litdtlit/n, Shining-leaved Meadow Rue; 6'. T. aquikgi- 



folium, Columbine-leaved Meadow Rue, or Feathered Columbine. 



The first has knobbed roots: the leaves small, obtuse, indented 

 in three parts at their points, of a grayish colour and smooth: the 

 stalks rise a foot and half high, and are naked almost to the top, where 

 they divide into two or three small ones, under each of which is 

 placed one leaf; every division is terminated by a small bunch of 

 pretty large flowers, disposed almost in form of an umbel, each 

 composed of five white petals. It is a native of Spain, flowering in 

 June. 



The second species attains the height of three feel: the stems 

 snffruticosc, dark purple, branched: leaves resembling those of 

 Columbine, but glaucous: the flowers in many pale-purple heads, 

 five-petalled and white. It is a native of North America, flowering 

 from May to July. 



There is a variety, which is smaller, with pale purple filaments. 



The third has the stem about six or seven inches high: the leaves 

 downy, composed of a great number of small leaflets, which are 

 bluntly indented, and have a fetid scent: the flowers in loose 

 panicles, small, and of an herbaceous white colour: the leaves are 

 somewhat hairy on both sides, pulpy and soft: the petals themselves 

 are somewhat hairy, in the young plant reddish, but in the adult 

 whitish, almost a foot high, and not very leafy. It is a native of the 

 south of France, Switzerland, &c. flowering from May to July. 



The fourth species has the stems from two to three feet high: 

 the flowers small, collected in terminating panicles, and of an herba- 

 ceous white colour. It is a native of Germany and Switzerland, 

 flowering in June and July. 



The fifth has the stems upright, channelled, five or six feet high, 

 having at each joint pinnate leaves, composed of many linear fleshy 

 leaflets, which are for the most part entire, and end in acute points: 

 the flowers are of a yellowish-while colour; they appear in July, and 



