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feet high : the lower leaves a hand wide, on 

 long petioles ; the upper ones smaller, on 

 shorter petioles ; the uppermost very small, al- 

 most sessile ; all obscurely angular, sinuate, 

 bngiit green, juibescent : the flowers sessile in the 

 axils, over the whole stem and branches, small 

 in proportion to so large a plant. It is a na- 

 tive of Syria, flowering from June to Au- 

 gust. 



The eighth is likewise an annual plant, with 

 htalks about a foot long, smooth, and declining: 

 the leaves on prctiy long footstalks : the flowers 

 single from the axils, and at the top in clusters : 

 the calyxes large, acute : the corollas small, 

 pale blue. It is a native of Egypt, flowering 

 in June and July. 



The ninth has the root long, branched, and 

 perennial : the stem from two to tlireefect hiah, 

 round, rugged, hairy ; hairs in bundles, spread- 

 ing : branches alternate : the leaves alternate, 

 semiorbicular, five-parted to the base, wilh the 

 lobes oblong, three- or five-parted, bright green, 

 whitish underneath, pubescent, somewhat rug- 

 ged : the petiolesround, with very small awl-shap- 

 ed stipules at the base : the flowers terminating, in 

 panicles or bundles : the calyx small in propor- 

 tion to the size of the corolla, pubescent ; 

 outer small, inner much larger : the corolla an 

 inch and half or two inches long, five-parted to 

 the base, bright purple; with blunt two-lobed 

 segments. It is a native of many parts of 

 Europe. 



The tenth species has root-leaves roundish, 

 kidney shaped, entire, except being crenate on 

 the margin: the first stem-leaves three- lobed, 

 divided half way down : side-lobes divided 

 again into two or three, but not so deeply : 

 above these they are three-lobed to the foot- 

 stalk : lobes agaiti deeply divided ; divisions 

 deeply jagged : higher ones five-lobed, lobes 

 pinnatifid, segments of the upper ones more 

 divided, and narrower ; uppermost linear : the 

 stem round, much branched, slightlv hairy: 

 at the origin of each branch, two lanceolate 

 hairy stipules : the flowers crowded on the top 

 of the stem and branches on short peduncles, 

 and single ones from the axils of the upper 

 leaves : petals heait-shapcd, divided pearly to 

 the base, pale red or flesh-coloured, \tith deeper 

 veins. It differs from the ninth sort, with 

 which it has been confounded, in having the 

 stem not so tall, with solitary upright hairs 

 rising from a prominent little point: the arils 

 rough with hairs : the flowers of an ambrosial 

 or musky scent : the musky smell is not how- 

 ever always to be perceived. Mr. Curtis, on 

 cultivating both species together, found the 

 ninth grow nearly to twice the heiglii of this. 



and to be in every respect a stronger plant, anc! 

 harsher to the touch. It is a native of many 

 pans of Europe. 



The eleventh rises with a woody stalk ten or 

 twelve feet high, sending out branches from 

 the side, the whole length : the stalks and 

 branches are closely covered with hairs: the 

 leaves are hairy, indented, on their sides, so as 

 to have the appearance of a trilobate leaf : those 

 on the young plants are three inches long and 

 two broad at their base : but as the plants grow 

 older, they are scarcely half that size : the flowers 

 come out from the side of the branches, upon 

 peduncles an inch long; they are of a deep 

 red colour, shaped like those of the common 

 mallow, but smaller. It flowers great part of 

 the year, and is a native of the Cape. 



There are varieties in which the stems are 

 thicker and higher, of a brownish red colour: the 

 leaves hirsute, broader, with wider segments, less 

 deeply cut, but with the toothlets s^harper and 

 serrate : the whorls of fruit a little larger, and 

 not muricated; and in which the hairs of the 

 leaves and stem are simple, not compound : 

 the flowers almost upright, not droopinir. 



Ciihure. — The ten first sorts are all ca])able 

 of being raised from seeds, which, in the hardy 

 kinds, should be sown in the situations where 

 the plants are to grow, in patches of four or 

 five in each, in the spring or bcginninir of au- 

 tumn, covering them to the depth of half an 

 inch. They may likewise be sown upon a bed 

 of fine earth, and be afterwards removed to the 

 places where they arc to flower. Those which 

 are natives of hot climates, should be sown in 

 pots and plunged in a hot- bed. 



When the plants in the two latter modes 

 have attained some growth, they should be re- 

 moved into their proper situations, or into other 

 pots, to be afterwards managed according to the 

 difference of the kinds. 



The last sort and varieties may be raised also 

 by seed, which should be sown upon a liot-bed, 

 or in pots and plunged in it. \\hcn the plants 

 have attained some growth, they should be re- 

 moved into separate pots, replunging them in 

 the hot-bed till fresh rooted, when they should 

 be gradually inured to the full air, managing 

 them afterwards in the same manner as o~ther 

 exotics of the green-house kind. 



1 he hardv sorts aflord a plcasintj variety in 

 the shrubbery and other parts, while those of 

 the more tender and shrubby kind produce a 

 good effect in the green-house, and among 

 j)0!ted collections. 



MAMMEA, a geiuis conta'ning plants of 

 the evergreen exotic tree kind. 



It ranks in the class and order Pohjoamia 



