300 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
BoissiER describes the anthers as usually yellowish, and the carpels 
as glabrous ; in my plants, which I received from the Cambridge 
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Fig. 178. — S. hispanicum Linn, and varieties. 
Botanic Garden, the anthers are purple and the carpels hairy ; but 
the latter character is so variable in this species that the Cambridge 
plant may reasonably go under Boissier's name. Resembles the 
type in its size and annual character. 
