gardens, having been cultivated in them from the days of © 
Parkinson. It belongs to the South of France, Spain, and 
the Coast of Barbary, and is said to affect wild hilly spots 
near the sea-shore. It’requires some slight protection from 
hard frost in winter. 
In the Spanish Annals of Science the dried plant, re- 
duced to powder, is celebrated as a most efficacious yul-— 
nerary; chiefly however used, as it appears by the various — 
attestations of its cures, in the pious practice of the late 
monasteries. ” . ee 
Lamarck speaks of the plant as a dwarfish herbaceous 
erennial, remarkable for its prickly pointed calyx and_ 
heathlike foliage; and describes it with a rootstock bearing” 
several stems, of a somewhat woody consistence at the base, — 
where they begin to divide into branches, more or less up- | 
right, from 5’to 8 inches long, round, ash-coloured or some- — 
times with a tinge of red, and full-leaved throughout their 
whole length. Leaves numerous, scattered, small, linear, ” 
narrow, for the most part entire; the upper ones in the 
wild plant being however edged with sharp prickly teeth, — 
Flowers either of a red or else blueish purple, nearly sessile, © 
and disposed at the top of the stem in close-set heads or — 
ovate spikes. Calyx subventricose, five-toothed, with prickly — 
diverging points from the base of the teeth. Corolla tu-— 
pular, irregular, sloping; tube the length of the calyx; | 
limb 5-parted, segments short, oblong, obtuse, one-notched, 
uneven; stamens but little shorter than the corolla, inserted © 
on the tube, sloping in an opposite direction to the slope of | 
the limb of the corolla; anthers nearly round. Germen glo-— 
bular, superior (within the calyx); style the length of the 
stamens; stigma simple, thickened. Capsule globular, con- 
eealed within the calyx, one-celled, 5-valved: seeds ovoid. — 
The drawing was made from a plant obligingly sent by | 
Mr. Lambert from Boyton, in Wiltshire. F 
