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Canna Inpica. Common InpIAN REED 
or SHoT. 
: a : eb Bigs 4 
_ =» 9 ..Generit Charaéter. a 
Corolla 6-partita ereGta: labio bipartito, r Stylus lan- 
ceolatus, co olle adnatus. Calyx 3-p 
cs = Specific Character and Sym ; ms. 
CANNA Indica foliis. ovatis utrinque acuminatis nervolis. 
Sp. Pl. 1. Ait. Kew. vol. 1. p. 1. 
CANNACORUS. Rumpbh. amb. §. p. 177. t. 71. fi 2. 
- ARUNDO indica latifolia. Banh. Pin. 19. 
CANNA Indica flore rubro. Red flowred Indian Reede. 
Park. Parad. p. 376. 
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The Canna izdica, a native of both the Indies, is a plant 
greatly admired for the beauty of its foliage and flowers, and 
on that account generally cultivated; it has been called by 
wae Indian Shot, from the roundnefs and hardnefs of its 
feeds. PPE ILE 
“ We find it to have exifted in our gardens in the time of 
Gerarp, 1596. Parkinson was acquainted with that va- 
riety of it which has yellow fpotted flowers: Prof. Martyn, 
in his edition of Miller's Dif. has quoted the chief of what 
thefe authors fay of it, which as a matter of curiofity we fhall 
here tranfcribe: “ Grrarp informs us, that in his time it 
“was in the garden at Padua, that he had planted it in his 
“ garden divers times, but it never came to flowering; and 
* that it muft be fet or fown in a pot, with fine earth, or in 
“ a bed made of horfe-dung, in fuch manner as Cucumbers 
“ and Mufk-Melons are: Parkinson fays, in fome kindly 
“years this beautiful plant has borne its brave flowers, but 
“ never any ripe feed, and that it will not abide the extremi- 
“ ties of our winters, unlefs it meet with a ftove, or hot-houfe, 
“ fuch as are ufed in Germany; for neither houfe nor cellar 
“ will preferve it: Crusius faw it flowering by houfe-fides 
“in Spain and Portugal, and fays, that the inhabitants there 
_“ ufe the feeds for making their rofaries.” 
