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purple, through the diflercnt shades of red to 

 high scarlet. 



'i"he twelfth species has the stem slirubbv, 

 twisted, covered with an ash-coloured bark : the 

 branches round, villose, sub-herbaceous, a foot 

 long : the leaves opposite, on long jH'tioles, 

 glaucous, rugged ; lobes curled, toothed : the 

 stipules alinost embracing, acuminate : the 

 common peduncle ol'ten opposite to a leaf, or 

 lateral, sometimes axillary, longer than the leaf: 

 involucre one-leafed, many-parted, shrivellinc; ; 

 rays about thirteen, scarcely an inch lonsr. It 

 is remarked by Jacquin, that the whole has a 

 very stronti; smell : and Curtis sa\-s that it ob- 

 viously differs from all the other species in the 

 particular shape of its leaves, rnd the colour of 

 the flowers, which are usually or a rich and very 

 dark purple edged with white. It flowers from 

 June to Auaust. 



The thirteenth species rises with an upright 

 shrubby stalk to the height of seven or eight 

 feet, sending out many pretty strong branches : 

 the leaves are somewhat like those oT the vine ; 

 the lower on long petioles, the upper on short 

 ones ; when rubbed, they have a seent of balm : 

 the flowers grow in compact clusters, on the top 

 of long, naked, axillary peduncles, rising much 

 higher than the branches; being small and of a 

 pale blue colour, making no great figure; but 

 containing a succession for most part of the 

 summer. 



The fourteenth rises with a shrubby stalk four 

 or five feet high, dividing into several weak ir- 

 regular branches : the leaves arc divided into 

 three unequal lobes, which are hairy, and waved 

 on their edges ; they are placed alternately, and 

 their footstalks are hairy : the flow ers grow in 

 close roundish heads, forming a sort of corymb; 

 are of a purplish blue colour, and continue in 

 succession a great part of the summer : the 

 ]eaves, when rubbed, have the odour of dried 

 roses. 



The fifteenth species has a shrubby stem, 

 covered with a gray bark, three feet hiy;h and 

 more; branches declining and decumbent, green, 

 clammy, as is the whole'^plant: the leaves are 

 alternate, the uppermost sometimes opposite, 

 often shorter than the petioles, large, acute, 

 sinuate : the stipules wide-acuminate, shrivel- 

 ling : the conmion peduncles axillary, lateral, 

 or opposite to a leaf, erect, solitary, longer than 

 the leaves: involucre five-leaved, the" leaflets 

 ovate-acute, shrivelling : rays from three to 

 eight, half an inch long : the middle of the leaf 

 is generally stained with purple. It flowers in 

 May and June, continuing to September. 



Several varieties have been produced from 

 seed. 



The sixteenth rises with a shrubbv stalk eio-hl 

 or ten feel high, sendmg out several irreg;nlar 

 branches : the leaves are roundish, with the 

 sides erect, so as to form a hollow or hood, 

 whence termed cowled ; are heart-shaped at the 

 base, or kidney-shaped, and from the footstalk 

 run many nerves arising from a point, but di- 

 verging towards the sides ; the borders are 

 sharply indented ; those on the lower part of the 

 branches have long footstalks, and are placed 

 without order on every side, but those on the 

 upper part have shorter footstalks, and stand 

 opposite : the flowers are produced in large pa- 

 nicles (or umbels) on the tops of the branches, 

 of a purple blue colour. It flowers from June 

 to September. 



The seventeenth species has a shrubbv branch- 

 ed stem, when young red, when very youno- 

 green and villose, when old covered with an 

 ash-coloured bark : the leaves are alternate, al- 

 most equal to the petioles, tomentose, whitish 

 underneath : the stipules subovate : the flower* 

 at the ends of the stem and branches in nume- 

 rous umbels. It flowers from March to July. 



There are several varieties. 



The eighteenth has the stalk green, surface 

 smooth and somewhat glossy, beset with spines 

 which bend back and terminate in brownish 

 weakish points ; these appear to have been pri- 

 marily the stipules, which become thus fleshy 

 and rigid : the leaves are on long footstalks, 

 veiny, soft and downy, especially on the under 

 side, which is of a much lighter colour than the 

 upper : the fl^owering stem proceeds from the 

 summit of the stalk, and is a foot or more in 

 height : as it advances it throws out its branches 

 or peduncles, ultimately about five in number, 

 each of which has a leaf at its base, similar to 

 the other leaves of the plant, but smaller, and 

 terminates in an umbel of seven or ei^-ht 

 flowers of a spotted purple colour. In its habit 

 it somewhat resembles ihe precedin"-. It flowers 

 from May to September. 



It varies with petals of a rich purple colour, 

 in which the spots are similar, but not so con- 

 spicuous. 



The nineteenth species has angular stems, 

 angles four, sometimes three, suctailent, as is. 

 the whole plant, procumbent w hen they shool 

 out into length, at first hairy, afterwards very 

 smooth, much branched, and three feet hitih : 

 the leaves alternate, almost equal to the petioles, 

 orbiculate, five-lobed ; the younger villose, tooth- 

 crenate, violate-coloured underneath, and above 

 having a dark red zone; the older crenate, 

 fleshy, dark green, with a few villose hairs, 

 and frequently with a zone: the stipules short, 

 semicircular, spreading, shrivelling: the pc- 



