tered in the greenhouse the seed is sometimes ripened ; but 
the more usual way of propagating it, is by dividing the 
suckers from the root-stock. 
A perennial fibrous-rooted herbaceous plant, clothed, ex- 
cept at the corolla, by a close fine nap, which distinguishes 
ìt at first sight from splendens. Stem. upright usually two 
feet high, somewhat angular and furrowed, especially near 
the base. Leaves sessile, narrow- or long- lanceolate, veined, 
distantly denticulate, reflectent at the edge, lower ones 3 or 
4 inches long, upper gradually smaller. Raceme many- 
flowered, upright, terminal, pointing in some degree to one 
side. Peduncles shorter than the calyx. Segments of the 
calyr entire, acute, patent near the top. Corolla scarlet, 
but of a lighter and more glowing hue than in splendens ; 
larger than in cardinalis, now yielding its place in our col- 
lections to the new-comers. Filaments linear-lanceolate, 
cohering, except at the summit and base, equal to the co- 
rola, not longer as in cardinalis: anthers linear-oblong, 
cohering, pubescent at the top. Seed very small. 
Mr. Pursh has included it in his account of the plants 
of North America, as growing on the Mississipi, but 
he had only seen it in our gardens, and gives no authority 
for its belonging to the station he mentions. 
The drawing was made at Messrs. Colvilles’ nursery, 
Chelsea, 
