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LYCHNIS fulgens. 
Siberian Lychnis. 
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DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CARYOPHYLLBA. Jusieu gen. 299. Dio. V. Calyx. tubu- 
Josus. Stamina 10 (alterna hypogyria, altema spits epipetala). li duo 
aut tres aut quinque. 
LYCHNIS. Cal. tubulosus 5-dentatus. Petala 5 unguiculata, limbo 
sepè fissa. Styli 5. Caps. S-locularis 5-valvis. Flores sep? eorgmbosi 
terminales, rariùs spicato-paniculati, in. LycHNITE alpina et LYCHNITE 
quadridentatà interdúm 4-styli, in Lycunire dioicd aborti dioici. Fructus 
in L. viscarià 5-locularis, in L. Flore Cuculi unilocularis. Juss. loc. cit. 302. 
L. fulgens, hirsuta, floribus solitariis, foliis oblongis.. Sprengel eent. sp. pi. 
minus cogn. 26. n. 55. > 
Lychnis fulgens. Fischer ined. (fide Sprengelii). Curtis's magaz; 2104. 
Herba hirtiùs tomentosa; caulis subsesquipedalis erectus ramosissimus, 
ramis supernis floriferis trichotomo-cymosis, floribus brevissimà pedunculatis, 
medio singularum trichotomiarum ebracteato, lateralibus bibracteatis, bracteis 
calycem subequantibus. Fol. opposita, decussato-distantia, sessilia, oblongo- 
ovata, acuminata. Cal. oblongus, lanatus, qiindraceu, 10-anguloso-pli- 
catus, intüs glaber, dentibus 5 acuminatis. Cor. aurantiaco-coccinea, 3 
metro sesquiunciali vel majori, limbo stellato-explanato; petala dorso cari- 
nata, laminá cuneato-obcordatá 4-fidd, lobis inequalissimis, mediis 2 mul- 
totiós majoribus distantibus lineari-oblongis obtusissimis apice denticulato- 
erosis, lateralibus duplo brevioribus, angustissimis, linegri-subulatis; ungue 
«quante calycem, intùs margine lanato-ciliato, parùm breviore laminá. 
Corona pede limbi posita, è paribus 5 squamularum dentiformium recumben- 
tium igneo-rutilantium. Stam. tubo subinserta, altdinà 5 tardiora, 5 petalis 
inserta, 5 stipite germinis: anth. incumbentes, coccinea. Styli 5 simplicis- 
^ simi, inclusi. Germ. viride, glabrum, oblongum columella brevi innitens. 
It is not an easy matter to point out in what respects 
this new and brilliant acquisition is to be discriminated from 
the well-known * Scarlet Lychnis" (L. chalcedonica), if we 
except the differences of dimension. In fulgens the leaves 
are broader and proportionately shorter, the stem is scarcely 
one third the height of that of chalcedonica; in fulgens the 
flowers are several times larger, and the two outer segments 
of the petals longer and more perfectly defined than in chal- 
cedonica, where they are mere teethlike rudiments; in ful- 
gens the branches which support the flowers are greatly more 
extended, and farther apart, thus giving an incomparably 
wider breadth to the inflorescence than in chalcedonica, 
where the flowers are nearly sessile, and very compactly 
