border, taking care that it does not suffer from
want of watering in dry summers.

Was cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in 1759. _Ait. Kew._

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[Illustration: _No 236_]

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VERBASCUM MYCONI. BORAGE-LEAV'D MULLEIN.

_Class and Order._

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Corolla_ rotata, subinaequalis. _Caps._ 1-locularis 2-valvis.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

VERBASCUM _myconi_ foliis lanatis radicalibus, scapo nudo. _Linn. Syst.
Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 220._ _Ait. Kew. p. 238._

CORTUSA foliis ovatis sessilibus. _Linn. Hort. Cliff. 50._

SANICULA alpina, foliis boraginis villosa. _Bauh. Pin. 243._

AURICULA _ursi_ myconi. _Dalech. Hist. 837._

AURICULA _ursi_ flore coeruleo folio Boraginis. Blew Beares Eares with
Borage leaves. _Park. Parad. p. 236. 237. f. 3._

Most of the plants of this genus are tall and shewy; the one here
figured is however, of very humble growth, its flowering stem in the
cultivated plant rarely exceeding six inches in height; its flowers are
proportionably large, of a blueish purple colour, and highly ornamental;
they make their appearance in May, and continue successively in blossom
for several months, hence it becomes a desirable plant to cultivate,
especially for the decorating of rock-work; it is very hardy, requires a
north aspect in the summer, and to be carefully watered in dry weather;
will grow in almost any soil, and is usually propagated by planting its
roots in autumn.

Grows spontaneously on the Pyrenean Alps; in its wild state it is more
dwarfish than our figure represents it, its foliage more woolly, and
enriched with various tints, which the plant loses on cultivation; such
specimens I saw in the possession of Dr. R. HALIFAX, of
Albemarle-Street, who gathered it on its native Alps.

Was cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in 1731, _Ait. Kew._ and most probably
long before that period by PARKINSON, who lives a figure and accurate
description of it in his _Parad. terrestris_.

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OXALIC CARINA. GOAT'S-FOOT WOOD SORREL.

_Class and Order._

DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ Unibus connect. _Caps._ Anglos discerns,
5-Gina.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

OXALIS _Carina_ scapis unbeliefs, foliis ternaries glabris, floribus
erects. _Thunb. Oxalic, n. 11._ _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._
_Murr. p. 433._

OXALIS _Peas Capra_ scapo embel