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ERIN US Lychnidea. 

 Lychnis 'flowered Erinusi 



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DIDYNAMIA ANOIOSPERMM. ,^ 



Nat. ord. ScROPHULARiNiE. Sect. IL Stamba 4 aniiierifeift* Brawm 



pr&d, 436. 



ERINlfS. Calyx &-partitus. Corotta tubulosa limbo fr-partito aub- 

 wquali, lobis cordatis, Capmla ovata. Folia pteraque altema : 60ns iw- 

 iilares aui i-bracteati, spicati, terminalei, Jusb, gen. 100, 



£. Lycknidea^ foliis lanceolatis serratis^ corollae tubo pubesceDte, limbi la- 



ciniis setnibifidia. 

 E. capeDsis. Linn, mant 252. 

 E. Lychnidea. Linn. suppL 287- WiUd, «p. plant, 3. 333. , ThmA, prod, 



102. Pcr«.*fya.2. 147. 



Caulis ereefu^, ^eres» pnAeffcen^, bipedalis. Polia altema (infenaribus w- 

 poritis), sessilia, Unearia, dentata, remata^ pubescmtia, Spica fermtiiaaf^ 

 oblmga^ imbricata Bracteis latioribuSt mato-lanceolatis, daitati$. Calyx 

 ^emliSi longitudine bractearum, guinqueikntatwt Inrntriitusy erectm, Mu- 

 w$, infemh lati&r. Corolla Jlava, odoratimma. Tabus fiHfarmu, cabfce 

 iriph tongior. Limbus ^-partitus; lobis Memibifid^^ obovatis^ ^B^pudibm. 

 Stamina didyma, Andiene 2 in ore tubi; 3 infra faucem. Oermen ngie- 

 nun. BtylusJllifijTmiM^ Umgitudtne tubi. linn, mant. 292. 



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For the means of publishing this rare pl&nt, Which we 

 believe is figured now for the first time, we are obliged to 

 Richard Leigh, Esq. hf Bexley. 



It was originally described by Ijnnseus, in his Mantissa, 

 with the name of E. capensln, and a figure of Bormann was 

 cited, which is now known to represent Ebinhs fragrans ; 

 an error which Linnaeus afterwards detected, but which is 

 continued in Persoon's Synopsis, although avoided by pre- 

 vious writers. The appellation of Lychnidka was given to 

 the plant by the younger Linnseus, in the Supplementum Pian- 

 tarum ; we suppose, from the belief that it was one of the 

 species of Lychnidea represented hyBurmann. But, if we 

 are right in our conjecture, the nam^was unfortunately ap- 

 plied, since neither of the species of LvtHNiDEA belonging to 

 Erinus, which are described by Burmann, are referable to 

 the present plant ; one kind being a synonym of E. qfn'ca- 



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