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with intermediate tints : for this reason I have rejected both 

 the specific names Rosea, and Purpurea, for one that is appli- 

 cable to all of them. Pinnata, as Monsieur Thouin observes, 

 is equally inadmissible, because many of its leaves only con- 

 sist of three leaflets, and a greater number of the leaves of the 

 second species being also pinnated, it has already occasioned 

 much confusion. Though the seeds arrived so late in this 

 country, several of them flowered the succeeding autumn at 

 Holland House, and the variety f with deep purple flowers, 

 was immediately pretty well figured in the Botanist's Reposi- 

 tory. By the constant attention of Mr. Buonaiuti, in 

 pressing out the moisture, which is collected among the 

 florets after the calyx closes, a number of seeds were ripened 

 in 1805, and some of these were liberally communicated to 

 me late in the month of April, 1806. I had no opportunity 

 of sowing them till the 5th of May, when they were put in 

 two pots of light rich earth, plunged to their rims in a bed of 

 dung, which had nearly lost its heat, having been made two 

 months. A dozen plants soon came up,andonthe first of June, 

 being about five inches high, as well as very stiff, from the 

 lights having been taken off in the day time, were transplanted 

 separately into pots of two inches and a half in diameter. In 

 these they continued three weeks, when two of the strongest 

 were removed without breaking any of their fibres into large 

 pots of very rich mould, with the intention of following Mon- 

 sieur Thouin's directions minutely, five of them into pots one 

 size larger, of very rich mould, and five of them into pots one 

 size larger, of poor sandy mould : all these plants were twice 

 more transplanted into somewhat larger pots before the 10th 

 of August, by which time the two largest were four feet 

 high, and the others not much shorter, though less branched. 



