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fine effect. These may be trained up lo stems, 

 eo as to be out of the reach of cattle, and be 

 planted in open places, where, if they are fenced 

 against cattle till they are grown up, they may 

 be afterwards exposed. The others, which are of 

 humbler growth, should be confined to gardens 

 or other inelosures, where they may be secured 

 from e.ittle, &c. They should only have the 

 irregular branches pruned in, occasionally as 

 they want it. 



PHLOMIS, a genus containing plants of the 

 shrubby and under-shrubby evergreen kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Didynamia 

 Gijmriospbnnia, and ranks in the natural order 

 of Verlidllat(B or LalialcB. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, tubular, oblong, live-eonier- 

 L'd, toothed, permanent : involucre below the 

 whorl: the corolla one-petalled, ringent : tube 

 oblong: upper lip ovate, vaulted, incumbent, 

 compressed, villose, obsoletely bilid : lower lip 

 trifid : the middle segment larger, two-lobed, 

 blunt ; the side ones small, more acute : the 

 stamina have four filaments, concealed under 

 the upper lip, of which two are longer : anthers 

 oblong: the pistilluni is a four-parted germ: style 

 the length and situation of the stamens : stigma 

 bifid, acute ; the lower cleft longer : there is no 

 pericarpium : calyx containing the seeds at the 

 bottom : the seeds four, oblong, three-sided. 



The species are: 1. P. fruticosa. Shrubby 

 Phlomis, or Jerusalem Sage; 2. P. purpurea, 

 Sharp-leaved Purple Phlomis ; 3. P. Ilalica, 

 Blunt-leaved Purple Phlomis ; 4. P. LTjchiiiiis, 

 Sage-leaved Phlomis ; 5. P. laciniala, Jagged- 

 leaved Phlomis; 6. P. ;«Z'e?-o.vrt, Tuberous Pfdo- 

 mis; 7. P. Zfijlauka, White Phlomis; 8. P. 

 nepetifoUa, Cat-mint-leaved Phlomis ; 9. P. 

 leonurus. Narrow-leaved Phlomis, or Lion's- 

 Tail ; 10. P. Leonilis, Dwarf Shrubby Phlomis. 



The first has a pretty thick shrubby stalk, 

 covered with a loose bark, rising five or six feet 

 in height, and dividing into many irregular 

 branches, which are four-cornered, woolly 

 when young, and afterwards become woody : 

 their joints are pretty far asunder; at each of 

 these are placed two roundish leaves opposite, 

 on short footstalks ; they are woolly on their 

 underside: the flowers come out in thick whorls 

 round the stalks, and are yellow ; they appear 

 from June to August ; but the seeds very rarely 

 ripen in this cluuate. It grows naturally in 

 Spain and Sicily. 



There arc two varieties : The Narrow-leaved 

 slirubbv Phlomis, or Jerusalem Sage, which does 

 not rise so high as the above; the branches are 

 weaker ; the leaves longer, narrower and round- 

 er j the whorls of tiowers smaller, but the 



flowers of the same shape and colour. These 

 have been long culti\'ated under the title of 

 French Sage, &c. 



The Broad-leaved shrubby Phlomis, which 

 has a shrubby stalk like the former, but much 

 lower, seldom rising more than three feet and 

 a half high, sending out branches on every side: 

 the leaves hoary, broader than either of the 

 former, of an oblong ovate form, on pretty 

 long footstalks and whiter: the whorls large, 

 with bigger flowers, the upper lip of which is 

 very hairv. 



'i'he second species has the stem rather shrub- 

 by, erect, branched, slightly quadrangular, co- 

 vered vi/ith thick wool, especially the younger 

 branches : the leaves are opposite, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, crenate, netted-veined,' woolly on both 

 sides, but most on the under one ; the lower- 

 most cut off at the base, but not heart-shaped, 

 on long footstalks ; the upper ones on shorter : 

 the footstalks channelled, very woolly : the 

 wool of the whole plant is formed like little 

 stars : the whorls sessile in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, consisting of six or eight flowers 

 which are sessile, the same size with those of 

 the first sort, but pale purple. It has a soapy 

 smell, and is a native of Spain, flowering in 

 June. 



The third has the leaves less distinctly veined 

 on the under side than in the second sort, and 

 almost equally woolly on both sides, instead of 

 being green on the upper ; the lowennost are 

 heart-shaped at the base : the bractes are blunt, 

 by no iTieans pungent; half as long as the calyx, 

 which is also remarkably obtuse. It is a native 

 of Italy and Portugal, flowering from June to 

 August. 



The fourth species has the habit of the first, 

 but the leaves are narrower: the corolla is 

 scarcely bigger than the calyx : the involucres 

 linear, crinite with long hairs : the root is hard, 

 thick, twisted : the leaves oblong, russet-co- 

 loured, cottony : the flowers of a golden colour, 

 handsome, and very apparent : the bractes cor- 

 date, acuminate. It is a native of the South 

 of France, &c., flowering from June to Au- 

 gust. 



1 he fifth has a perennial root : the stalk a 

 foot and a half high which decays in the au- 

 tumn, but the lower leaves continue all theyeaj: 

 the stem leaves are of the same shape with the 

 lower, but smaller: the flowers in whorls: calyx 

 downy : corolla of a dusky purple colour : they 

 appear in June, but the seeds do not ripen in 

 this climate. It was found in the Levant. 



The sixth species has a tuberous root : the 

 stalks are purple, four-cornered, five or six feet 

 high : the leaves six inches long, three broa^d 

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