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Lycunts Coronata. Cuinese Lycunis, - 
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Clafs and Order, 
DecanpRiA PENTAGYNIA. 
Generic Charaéfter. : 4 
» Gal, 1-phyllus, oblongus, levis. Petala 5, unguiculata: Limba a 
fub-bifido. Gap/. 5-locularis, : 
_ Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
LYCHNIS coronata glabra, floribus axillaribus terminalibuf- 
= que folitariis, petalis laciniatis. Thunéd. Japon, 
p. 187. Linn. Sy. Vegeiab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 435 
— Ait. Kew. V. 1. p. 117- 
LYCHNIS grandifora floribus axillaribus terminalibufque 
. _ folitariis, petalis inaqualiter crenatis, — Jacq, = 
 Colled?. Vi 1. p. 149. Icon. V.1. es . 
JAPONICE fen fjun ra, vulgo Ganpi. Kempf. Amen. Exot, 
: Fafc. V. p. 873. : 
The rich and elegant bloffoms of this Chinefe or Japanefe 
beauty, poffefs a flatnefs and ftiffnefs, which gives them an 
artificial air, to which their colour, which is exa@ly that of 
common red lead, may perhaps fomewhat. contribute ; they 
make their appearance towards the clofe of the fummer, and — 
as many (when the plant is in health and vigour) are pro- 
duced on the fame ftem, they continue a confiderable time in 
bloom ; its root is perennial, and its ftem, which rifes to th 
height of about two feet, herbaceous. ao 
We remember to have feen this plant in the colle@ion of 
the late Dr. Fornercitt at Upton, about the year 1774, 
_ by whom it was firft introduced to this country: Kamprer, 
the celebrated Dutch traveller, who faw it growing in Japan,” 
gives a very fhort defcription of it in his Amenitates exotica, 
and mentions a variety of it with white flowers: Profeflor 
Tuunserc, who faw it alfo in its wild ftate, as well as in 
‘the gardens of that country, confines himfelf to defcribing 
the plant more at large: Profeffor Jacquin, in his Icones, 
_ has given an admirable figure of it. ; : 
Perfons here differ in their mode of cultivating this fpecies 
of Lychnis, fome treating it as a ftove others as a green- — 
houfe and others as a hardy herbaceous plant; the latter | 
mode is to be preferred, provided care be taken to plant it 
in a fheltered fituation, and to guard it againft the rch : 
of particular feafons : it is propagated by parting its roots, alfo_ 
_ by flips, and cuttings, but in this bufinefs more than ordinary 
care is required to be fuccefsful, ee 
