5. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; the summits detached and magnified.
The variety here given, was introduced to England, with the changeable-flowered variety, in 1799, from Holland. It is the strongest marked variety of the six we possess; it flowers in May. The petals of this variety are remarkably thick at the insertion into the tube, and have a soft, beautiful brown on the outside, when the flower is closed, which still is never so fully so, but a small margin of the blue appears; which gives them a most beautiful appearance in that state. No particular regime is necessary to this plant, more than what is necessary to all the common species.[Pg 280]
PLATE CCXIV.
WESTERINGIA ROSMARINACEA.
Rosemary-like Westeringia.
CLASS II. ORDER I.
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Two Chives. One Pointal.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, sub-cylindricum, erectum, persistens, quinquedentatum, æquale; bracteis binis suffultum.
Corolla monopetala; petalum tubulatum calyce paulo longius; limbus patens, quinquepartitus, sub æqualis; laciniis duabus superioribus emarginatis.