300 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BoissiER describes the anthers as usually yellowish, and the carpels 

 as glabrous ; in my plants, which I received from the Cambridge 



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Fig. 178.— S. hispanicum Linn, and varieties. 



Botanic Garden, the anthers are purple and the carpels hairy ; but 

 the latter character is so variable in this species that the Cambridge 

 plant may reasonably go under Boissier's name. Resembles the 

 type in its size and annual character. 



