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ropeans, till Gmexin and STELLER saw it wild about the year 1740. Korxprn afterwards, in 
the year 1779, wrote an express treatise recommending it in venereal cases, and PaLtas informs 
us, that it is now gathered by the Cossacs in the neighbourhood of the River Jenisea, for exportation, 
of their interior scales remaining like narrow stipules upon the stem. Leaves dark green, crowded 
near the extremity of the branche~, from 1} to 22 inches long, and about 1 inch broad, spreading 
somewhat obovate, very entire, obtuse ; finely reticulated on their upper suriace, underneath viscid- 
pubescent while young especially on their nerves, afterwards smooth. [lowers from 6 to 10in very 
short terminal spikes, nodding. Bractes viscid-pubescent, Calyx scarcely distinguishable. Corolla 
resembling the Primrose in tint, and described by GmeLtn only as yellowish, not gold-colour, the 
middle upper segment variegated with greenish spots, ali of them somewhat obovate and hollowish, 
Filaments and anthers of a very pale primrose colour. Pollen white. Fruit tinged with red, viscid- 
pubescent except the melliferous callus atits base, Style very pale green. Stigma red. 
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REFERENCES TO THE PLATE, 
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1, Two views of a Stamen, with the Pollen magnified, 2, Pistillum magnified, and a transverse 
section of the young Fruit, magnified, ; : 
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