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LycunisCHALceponica. ScarLet Lycunis, 
: Cla/s and Order, 
Decanpria PENTAGYNIA, 
- Generic Charaéer. 
€al, 1-phyllus, oblongus, levis. Petala g-unguiculata. Linbe 
fub-bifido, Cap/. 5-locularis, 
: ‘Specific Charader and Synonyms. 
- LYCHNIS chalcedonica floribus fafciculatis faftigiatis, Linn, 
Syft. Vegetab, ed, 14. Murr. p. 435. Ait. Kew. 
- VU. 2. p. 16. . 
LYCHNIS hirfuta flore coccineo major. Baxh. Pin. 203. 
FLOS Conftantinopolitanus, Dod. Pempt.178. 5: 
LYCHNIS chalcedonica flore fimplici miniato. Single Nonfuch, ~ 
or Flower of Briftow or Conftantinople. Parkinf. — 
Parad. 253. : 
The Scarlet Lychnis appears to have been a great favourite 
with Parkinson, he calls it a glorious flower, and in a 
wooden print of him prefixed to his Paradifus Terrefiris, we 
"fee him reprefented with a flower of this fort in his hand of — 
the double kind. 
It grows fpontaneoufly in moft parts of Ruffia, and is one | 
_of our moft hardy perennials. Soe i: 
_ The extreme brilliancy of its flowers renders it a plant, in 
its fingle ftate highly ornamental ; when doubie, its beauty is 
_ heightened, and the daration of it increafed. 
It flowers in June and July. | . a 
The fingle fort may be increafed by parting its roots im ~ 
autumn, but more abundantly by feeds, which fhould be fown _ 
in the {pring ; the double fort may alfo be increafed by di- 
-Viding its roots, but more plentifully by cuttings of the ftalk, — 
put in in June, before the flowers make their appearance; in 
firiking of thefe, however, there requires fome nicety, = 
This plant is found to fucceed bet in a rich, loamy, foil: 
and certain diftri&ts have been found to be more favourable — 
to its growth than others, . E te 
A white and a pale red variety of it in its fingle ftate were — 
nown to Ciusius, and fimila¥ varieties of the double kind 
are faid to exift; it is of little moment whether they do or nots 
as every variation in this plant from a bright {carlet is in eveTy 
fenfe of the word a.degeneracy,, Le ee 
