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There are several varieties: as with red flowers, 

 with scarlet flowers, with white flowers. Great 

 Thrift with red flowers, with white flowers ; and 

 Small Sea Pink, with flesh-coloured flowers. 



The second species has scarcely any resem- 

 blance to lavender, and none of its aromatic 

 quality ; has a strong, perennial, woody root : 

 it varies much as to luxuriance, being sometimes 

 found with leaves scarcely an inch long, and 

 not more than six or eight flowers in a panicle, 

 and at other times much larger, with the flowers 

 far more abundant, of a bright blue colour, 

 which distinguish it at a distance : it is a beau- 

 tiful plant. It is a native of Britain, flowering 

 in .Tuly. 



There are several varieties : as Common Great 

 Sea Lavender; Great Late-flowering Sea Laven- 

 der; Olive-leaved Sea, Lavender ; Deep Blue- 

 flowered SeaLavender; and White-flowered Sea 

 Lavender, 



The third has the stalks naked, about six 

 inches high : leaves wedge-shaped, emarginate 

 at the end, and sometimes quite entire, rigid, 

 running down into the petiole ; varying in size, 

 according to the soil : the flowers numerous, 

 blue, imbricate, one-ranked, sometimes pale 

 red, appearing in August, but never produce 

 seeds in this climate. It grows naturally near 

 the sea, about Marseilles, Leghorn, &c. 



The fourth species has a strong root, woody 

 and perennial, bearing thick tufts of small nar- 

 row obovate spatulate or wedge-shaped leaves, 

 slightly pointed but not awned, and entire : the 

 scapes prostrate, very much branched : the 

 branches flexuose, matted and entangled with 

 each other, having an ovate sharp membranous 

 bracte at each divarication : many of the branches 

 are barren, and those often reflexed, but not 

 always : the flowers few together in simple ter- 

 minating spikes or bundles, erect, each enve- 

 loped in three or four larger blunt bractes : the 

 ribs of the calyx, and thepetals, are of a bright 

 purplish blue, which turns white in drying. It 

 is a native of the South of France and Malta. 



The fifth is an amiual plant, (biennial) with 

 long narrow leaves, which are set with rough 

 tubercles; the stalks about eight inches high, 

 dividino- into two or three small branches, which 

 are terminated by short reflexed spikes of pale 

 blue flowers, coming out late in August, and 

 seldom perfecting seeds in this climate : it is a 

 native of the South of Europe and Barbary. 



The sixth species has many radical leaves, 

 oblong, smooth, curled, ending in a sharp point: 

 the stems a foot high, branched, round, firmer 

 than in the other species, sometimes winged, 

 three or four spreading round the bottom, where 

 there is abundance of very elegant flowers which 



are larger than those of the second sort and 

 white, forming a handsome silvery head. — 

 It is a native of Russia, flowering in July and 

 August. 



The seventh has the leaves about four inches 

 Ions, and thee quarters of an inch broad in the 

 middle, diminishing gradually to both ends : 

 the stalks rise about five or six inches high, di- 

 viding into several spreading branches, which 

 are again divided into smaller ; these are termi- 

 nated by spikes of pale-blue flowers ranged on 

 one side the footstalk : the whole, when grow- 

 ing, being spread wide, has somewhat the ap- 

 pearance of an umbel of flowers, which come 

 out in August, but never ripen seeds in this 

 climate. It is a native of Russia, flowering in 

 June. 



The eighth species is a native of the Canary 

 Islands, flowering in September and October. 



The ninth is a native of Siberia, flowering 

 most part of the summer. 



The tenth species has a shrubby stalk about 

 two feet high, dividing into several woody 

 branches, which spread out on every side ; the 

 lovier parts of these are closely furnished with 

 gray leaves of a thick consistence : the branches 

 are terminated by panicles of blue flowers, com- 

 ing out singly at a distance from each other, 

 having one funnel-shaped petal, with a long 

 tube, and dividing into five spreading segments 

 at top : it flowers from June till autumn, but 

 never produces seeds in this climate. It is a na- 

 tive of Sicily. 



The eleventh has round stems, somewhat 

 woody, naked with alternate chafls, panicled : 

 the branchlels very much subdivided, in bun- 

 dles, filiform, imbricate with very minute chaffs, 

 terminated by a little bristle : the flowers subim- 

 bricate, ascendins, directed one way, yellow. 

 It is a native of Spain, of Portugal, and of Bar- 

 bary. 



The twelfth is a biennial plant : the lower 

 leaves, which spread on the ground, are in- 

 dented almost to the midrib; these indentures 

 are alternate and blunt: the stalks rise a foot 

 and half high, dividing upwards into several 

 branches, having at each joint three narrow 

 leaves sitting close to the stalks, from the base 

 of which proceeds a leafy membrane or wing 

 which runs along on both sides the stalk ; these 

 are rough and a little hairy: the stalks are termi- 

 nated by panicles of flowers, which sit upon 

 winged peduncles, each sustaining three or four 

 flowers of a light blue colour, which continue 

 long without fading : it flowers in July and Au- 

 gust ; but unless the summer is warm and dry, 

 the seeds do not ripen in this climate. It is a 

 native of Sicily and the Levant. There aye two 



