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fleshy, and straight ; the flowers are racemose : 

 the calyxes smooth, or rather somewhat viliosc : 

 the corollas yellow : the palate smooth, with a 

 tinge of red in the retuse elevation of it. 



The seventh has several smooth stems, eight 

 or nine inches long, usually decumbent : the 

 leaves rather fleshy, convex and glaucous : the 

 calyx and bractes only pubescent : the corolla 

 very dark purple, with the spur streaked : it 

 often varies of an asb, yellow, or lighter pur- 

 ple. By Curtis it is said to be of a fine rich 

 brown inclining to purple : the capsule is shaped 

 like the human skull. It is a native of Spain, 

 and flowers during most of the summer 

 months. 



The eighth species has an annual root : the. 

 stem six or eight inches high, erect, round, very 

 smooth, branching a little : the leaves very re- 

 mote, rather fleshy and smooth : the radical or 

 lower ones three or four together : the flowers 

 in a head or corymb, and small : the calyx erect, 

 not close, but with distant divisions : the co- 

 rolla purple, with a white palate marked with 

 obscure veins, purple : the upper lip longest ; 

 spur straight, as long or longer than the corolla. 

 It is a native of France, &c. 



The ninth is an annual plant, from whose root 

 proceed many stalks, which are lax and rushy, 

 very slender, and about a foot in height ; on the 

 lower part they have five very narrow, linear, 

 obtuse leaves at each joint ; but upwards they are 

 sometimes by pairs, and sometimes single : the 

 stalks are divided into many small branches, with 

 little yellow flowers coming out singly at a di- 

 stance from each other, which appear in July, 

 and ripen their seeds in August. It is a native 

 of Sicily. 



There are two varieties of this plant, one with 

 a deep yellow-coloured flower, the other with a 

 sulphur-coloured flower. 



In the tenth species the root is perennial : 

 the stems slender, branching at bottom, grow- 

 ing thicker towards the top, from two to seven 

 inches long, ascending, round and smooth: the 

 leaves quite entire, without veins, and thick ; the 

 lowest smaller, and in fours : the upper ones so- 

 litary, or two opposite, or sometimes three : the 

 flowers in a close raceme at the ends of the 

 stalks ; they are very elegant, of a fine violet 

 purple colour, with a rich gold colour in the 

 middle, and arc in blow most part of the sum- 

 mer. It is a native of the Alps. 



The eleventh species rises with a strong- 

 woody stalk, three feet high, having smooth, 

 spear-shaped leaves, placed alternately, and sit- 

 ting close to the stalk. The flowers are pro- 

 duced at the end of the branches in short loose 

 spikes ; these arc of a deep yellow colour, much 



larger than those of the common sort, and stand- 

 upon short foot-stalks. It flowers in July, but 

 the seeds rarely ripen in this climate, which 

 makes the plants scarce. It is a native of: 

 Crete, &c. 



The twelfth is a biennial or perennial plant. 

 which rises with an upright, branching stalk 

 from three to four feet high, having spear-shaped, 

 alternate leaves, ending in acute points, and of 

 a grayish colour. The flowers are produced at 

 the end of the branches, in loose panicles ; thev 

 are of a bright yellow colour. It is a native of 

 Siberia, &c. 



In the thirteenth the root is biennial : the 

 stem from a foot or eighteen inches to two and 

 even three feet in height, upright, round, solid, 

 smooth at bottom, but pubescent higher up : 

 the leaves arc lanceolate or ovate, blunt, the 

 lower mostly opposite, the upper inclined to be 

 alternate : the flowers in a spike, pointing one 

 way, large and handsome, on a very short, hairy 

 peduncle, supported by a short, concave, acu- 

 minate bracte : the nectary obtuse, scarcely pro- 

 minent : the capsule obliquely opening at top, 

 unequal at the base ; vulgarly compared in shape 

 to a calf's head : the tops of the stalks and the 

 calyxes are usually viscid. It is a native of the 

 south of Europe, and flowers in June and 

 July. 



There are a great many varieties, as with red, 

 yellow, purple and white flowers, red with white 

 or yellow mouths, white and red, yellow and red, 

 yellow and white, purple and white, purple with 

 yellow mouths, with scarlet dotted with gold 

 colour, with double flowers, and variegated 

 leaves. 



The fourteenth species is a biennial, or at most 

 a triennial plant, which frequently perishes soon 

 after the seeds are ripened. The stem is erect, 

 two feet high, branching, terminated with a 

 long thin spike : the stem-leaves small and three- 

 parted, sometimes five-parted, very different from 

 the broad, serrate, radical ones: the bractes one- 

 flowered, linear, long, sometimes trilid : the 

 flowers very small, on short peduncles, in a 

 very long raceme, containing frequently an 

 hundred flowers: the segments of the calyx al- 

 most capillary : the corolla blue, nodding, quin- 

 quefid, two of the divisions erect, three nod- 

 ding; throat open without any palate; spur 

 short, bent back : the anthers reflex, dark blue. 

 It is a native of Spain, &c. 



Culture. — In most of the plants of the Toad- 

 Flax kind the propagation may be readily effected 

 by sowing the seeds either in the autumn or the 

 spring, in situations where they are to remain, 

 and where the soil is light and not enriched by 

 manure. The seeds of the third, sixth and ele- 

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