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TRoPZOLUM MAJUS; var. atro-sanguineum. GREATER 
Inp1an Cress or Nasturtium; dark-red var. 
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Class and Order. 
OctanpriA Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Tropo.ez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-partitus, lobo superiore calcarato. Pet. 5, ine- 
qualia 3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stam. 8 ab ipsa 
basi libera. Carpella 3, suberosa, reniformia indehiscentia, 
hinc sulcata rotundata. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Trormotum majus; foliis peltinerviis orbiculatis subquin- 
nervis apice non exsertis, petalis obtusis. 
Tropmotum majus. Linn. Sp. Pl. p.490. Curt. Bot. Mag. 
t. 23. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 226. De Cand. 
Prodr. ~. 1. p. 683. 
(8.) atro-sanguineum ; floribus atro-sanguineis. Sw. Br. 
Fl. Gard. t. 204. (Tab. nostr. 3375.) 
The Common or greater Indian Cress, though a native of 
Peru, proves a hardy annual in this country, and has been 
cultivated in Europe ever since 1684. From the ease with 
which it may be propagated, and the great beauty of the 
flowers, it is a great favourite with the humble cottager ; 
its frequency having almost banished it from the gardens of 
the more curious in flowers. The older Botanists called it 
“a Viola inodora, scandens, nasturtii sapore,” &c. : and hence 
its English name of Nasturtium, and Indian Cress. The 
Cress-like flower is, indeed very remarkable ; and it is a 
well-known fact, that the caterpillars of the white butter- 
flies, which usually feed upon Cruciform plants, readily 
devour 
