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Nigella damascena. Garden Fennel- 
flower, Love in a mist, Devil in a Bush. 
Clafs and Order . 
POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. nullus. Petala 5. Neffaria 5. trifida, intra corollam. 
Capfula 5 connexae. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
NIGELLA damafcena floribus involucro foliofo cinftis. Linn. 
Syfi. Peg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 506. Sp. Pl.p. 753 * 
NIGELLA anguftifolia, {lore majore fimplici caeruleo. Bauh. 
Pin. 145. 
The great Spanifh Nigella. Park. Parad. p. 287. 
Is an annual, and grows wild among the corn in the fouthern 
parts of Europe ; varies with white and blue flowers, both 
fingle and double. 
" May be propagated by fowing their feeds upon a bed 01 
“ light earth, where they are to remain (for they feldom fuc- 
“ ceed well if tranfplanted); therefore, in order to have them 
“ intermixed among other annual flowers in the borders of the 
“ Flower Garden, the feeds fhould be fown in patches at pro- 
“ per diftances: and when the plants come up, they muff be 
“ thinned where they grow too clofe, leaving but three or 
“ four of them in each patch, obferving alfo to keep them 
“ clear from weeds, which is all the culture they require. Ijj 
“ July they will produce their flowers, and their feeds wi 
“ ripen in Auguft. 
u The feafon for fowing thefe feeds is in March ; but if} 011 
“ fow fome of them in Auguft, foon after they are ripe, upon 
a dry foil and in a warm fituation, they will abide throug 
the winter, and flower ftrong the fucceeding year; by 
fowing of the feeds at different times, they may be con- 
“ ^ nue d in beauty moft parts of the fummer.” MM eri 
Card. BiSt. ed. 6. 4 to. 
