with a tuft of villous white hairs ; teeth short, nearly equal
in size, ovate. Corolla ringent, tubular, inflated upwards,
clothed with short hairs inside and out : upper lip straight,
flat, and emarginate ; the lower one 3-cleft, the laciniae
flat, ligulate, spreading. Stamens 4, inserted in the tube,
2 fertile and bearing anthers, the other two short, sterile,
and bearing no anthers, and inserted lower down the tube;
fertile ones with very long filaments, exserted a great length
beyond the mouth ; anthers kidnej'-shaped, two-lobed, inserted
by the back to the filaments. Style smooth, exserted.
Stigma bifid, purple, the laciniæ rather unequal,
straight, or slightly spreading.
Fine strong specimens covered with flowers, of this scarce
and handsome plant, were sent to us in August last, from
the collection of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, where
they were growing luxuriantly, cultivated in the open border
of the Flower-garden, in sandy peat soil ; his plants
were imported from North America, where, according to
Nuttall, they grow chiefly in rocky, and, to the south, in
mountainous situations ; so that it will make a handsome
plant for ornamenting rock-work, or at any rate should be
grown in a dry situation, as too much moisture would be
likely to rot it in Winter, or it may be grown in small pots,
and can then be protected under lights in frames in very
wet weather or severe frost. It may be increased by dividing
at the root, or by seeds.
1. Calyx closed. 2. The same spread open to show the 10 stripes, and the
beard at the mouth. 3. Corolla spread open, showing the two fertile stamens,
and the two barren ones below them. 4. The 4 Seeds, terminated by the Style
and c left Stigma.