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5. Lophospermuin. Like Maurandia, but with a more leafy calyx and 

 open corolla. Leaves triangular-cordate, toothed, and slightly lobed. 



L. scandens. Corolla 2' long, purple, smooth, as also the leaves. 



L. erubescens. Corolla 3' long, rose-color, pubescent ; leaves downy. 



6. Paulo wnia imperialis. Tree, from Japan, with leaves like those of 

 Catalpa, but white-downy when young, appearing a little after the flowers, 

 which are panic-led ; calyx and panicle rusty-downy ; corolla lilac or pale 

 violet, with a cylindrical tube and a large 5-lobed border. Seeds winged. 



7. Kussellia juncea. Cult, in greenhouses, with slender bright-scarlet 

 flowers, hanging on the rush-like drooping filiform branches. 



8. Pentstemon. Besides those in the Manual, p. 286, the following are 

 commonest in the gardens, from Mexico, &c. 



P. barbatUS. Wholly glabrous, pale, 2 - 4 high ; leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolate ; flowers in a loose elongated panicle ; corolla long and narrow, bright 

 red or scarlet ; upper lip erect, lower reflexed, and sterile filament usually 

 bearded. 



P. Hartwegi. Glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, entire, the upper broader 

 at the base and clasping ; peduncles elongated, 3-flowered ; corolla 2' long, deep 

 red or red-purple, the border almost equally 5-cleft ; sterile filament naked. 



P. campanulatllS. Glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, sharply 

 serrate, the base clasping ; flowers in a raceme-like one-sided panicle ; corolla 

 ventricose above, purple or rose-colored ; sterile filament bearded. 



9. Mimulus, MOXKET-FLOWER. Man. p. 287. From W. America are, 



M. cardinalis. Erect, clammy-pubescent ; leaves wedge-oblong, partly 

 clasping ; flowers large, brick-red. 



M. luteus. Erect, smooth ; leaves ovate or cordate-clasping; flowers 

 showy, yellow, often spotted with rose or brown. 



M. moschatUS, MUSK-PLANT. Weak and diffuse, rooting, clammy- 

 villous, smelling strong of musk ; flower small, pale yellow. 



10. Digitalis purpurea, PURPLE FOXGLOVE. A very showy and hardy 

 perennial, with rugose pubescent leaves, and a long raceme of large and showy 

 drooping flowers, in summer, the corolla cylindrical-campanulate, 2' long, 

 with the lobes hardly any, purple, or a white variety, spotted within. 



11. Salpiglossis sinuata. Cult, as an annual ; clammy-pubescent ; leaves 

 sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid, with a tapering base ; flowers large and showy, 

 much like those of a Petunia; corolla 1' or 2' long, funnel-form and inflated 

 above, purple, straw-color, or variegated, 4 fertile stamens. 



12. Sch.izanth.US pinnatus. A handsome garden annual, from Chili, 

 with clammy-pubescent branches ; leaves alternate, once or twice pinnately 

 dissected ; corolla widely spreading:, one lip small, 3-lobed, violet-colored, the 

 other paler, often blotched, much larger and 5-partcd, its divisions 2-cleft, and 

 their lobes generally cleft again. 



13. Calceolaria. Several species, from the Andes, are in greenhouses ; 

 but the common ones are too much crossed and varied to tell the species. 



14. Veronica, SPEEDWELL. Man. p. 289. Besides our V. Virginica, there 

 are in the gardens, 



V. spicata. Erect hardy perennial, 1 hieh ; with oblong-lanceolate 

 crenate-toothed leaves, and racemes or spikes of delicate blue flowers ; also 

 mixtures of this with two other European species. 



