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1.— RAMONDIA PYRENAICA, Jiieh. THE PYRENEAN RAMONDIA. 
SvNoNYMES. — R. scapigcra, Jaume St. Hit. ; Vcrbascum Myconi, I Engravings Bot. Mag., t. 236 ; and oar fig. 5, in PI. 75, 
Lin. ; Myconia boraginca, Lapeyr, ; Chaixia Myconi, Lapeyr. ; I Specific Character. — Radical leaves ovate, deeply crenato, clothed 
Cortusa alpina, Trew. ; Auricula Ursi Myconi, Dalech. ; Sanicula with long reddish silky hairs on the under side, and white hairs above, 
alpina, Sank. ; Borage-leaved Mullein. | 
Description, &c.— This is a very pretty little plant, growing only about three or four inches high, and the 
flower-stalks springing from a dense mass of rough, dark green leaves. The general habit of growth of the 
plant very much resembles that of a primrose. It is quite hardy, and admirably suited to rock- work ; but it 
will grow in the border, in any common soil that is not too warm and dry. It is propagated by dividing its 
roots in autumn. It begins to flower in May, and it will continue in blossom nearly all the summer. It is a 
native of the Pyrenees, whence it was introduced before 1640 ; as it is described by Parkinson, gardener to the 
Queen of Charles I., who wrote in that year, as the " Blew Beares Eares with Borage leaves." The colour 
of the flowers, however, is not blue, or even purple ; but a pinkish liLac. 
CHAPTER XXXIX. 
SCROPHULARINi^. 
a fifth; ovarium two-celled ; style one ; stigma two-lobed, or undi- 
vided ; fruit capsular, rarely baccate, two-celled, two and four valved ; 
seeds small ; albumen copious ; embryo terete, erect, inclosed, straight; 
radicle inferior, looking to the umbilicus. (G. Don.) 
Character of the Order. — Calyx four or five-parted, permanent; 
corolla monopetjilous, hypogynous, deciduous, irregular, bilabiate, per- 
sonate, or ringent, imbricate in sestivation ; stamens usually four, 
didynamous, sometimes only two, and sometimes with the rudiment of 
Descbiption, &o. — The plants belonging to this order are of various habits and forms ; but they nearly all 
bear a considerable resemblance in their flowers, which are either personate or ringent ; that is, bearing more or 
less resemblance to the Snapdragon, which has a personate corolla, or to the Mimulus, the corolla of which is 
ringent, or gaping. Some species, however, have a tubular corolla, like that of the Foxglove. Notwithstanding 
these difierences, however, there is a strong family likeness in the flowers of almost all the genera. Tliey are 
all monopetalous and bilabiate, that is, the petals which form the corolla appear to be joined together, and the 
mouth of the flower has decidedly two lips, which difier in size, and generally also in shape. The leaves are 
also generally opposite, and much alike in the different genera. The species are natives of all parts of the 
world, and their qualities are as various as their forms. The name of the order is taken from the genus 
Scrophularia, in allusion to the supposed use .of some of the plants in the cure of scrofula. 
GENUS I. 
DIGITALIS, Fusch. THE FOXGLOVE. 
Lin. Syst. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character Corolla tabular, bilabiate, the lower lip the longest ; limb obliquely four-lobeJ ; stamens four, with & very slight 
rudiment of a fifth. 
Description, &c. — This is a very large genus, but the flowers of all the species bear so much resemblance to 
each other in form, that they are easily recognised at first sight, notwithstanding the difference of colours which 
