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base, broadly ovate, sinuate, sinuses broadly lobed
and bluntly toothed, less hairy underneath. Flowers
shortly peduncled, nearly sessile on the upper part of
the stem, of a reddish orange colour, yellow at the
Peduncle opposite to the leaf, short, cylindrical,
smooth and glaucous, sometimes terminating with a
few white hairs. B u d before expansion ovately oblona:
tepering to a point, thickly clothed with bristle like
hairs. Calyx of 2 sepals, which drop off as soon as
the flower expands. 4, undulate, the 2 outer
ones much larger than the others; outer ones orbicular •
inner ones obovate, with a yellow spot at the base,
and on the yellow spot is a brown mark. Stamens
above 100 the inner ones longest-, filaments smooth,
yellow attached to the base of the anthers, which are
2-celled, and open longitudinally to discharge the
pollen; pollen bright yellow. Siliqua rough, occasioned
by the small tubercles with which it is covered.
Stigma sessile, bilamellate, crested with a glandularly
thickened margin.
The present handsome plant, a native of the South of
Europe, is, by some, considered biennial, by others,
perennial; we are inclined to believe it perennial, but
very liable to perish in Winter by too much moisture
at its roots; this is not so much to be lamented, as it
produces plenty of perfect seeds, and the plants raised
irom these will flower the same Summer; and, if the
Autumn prove mild, will also ripen their seeds the
th™Nifrsenes^^ ** therefore sold as a hardy annual at
Drawn at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from a plant
S “ that flowered the first year from