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Cacalia Coccine a. Scarlet-Flowered 



Cacalia. 



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GV//} and Order. 



Syngenesia Polygamia zEqualis. 



Generic Charatler. 



Recept. nudum. Pappus pilofus. Cal cylindricus oblongus baft 

 tantum fubcalyculatus. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



CACALIA coccinea; caule herbaceo, foliis radicalibus ovatis 

 fpatulatis, caulinis integris amplexicaulibus cre- 

 natis marginatis. 



A tender annual, to be raifed on a hot bed in the Spring, 

 and about the middle of June it may be planted into the open 

 border, where it will ripen its feeds. Its fine fcarlet flowers 

 make a brilliant appearance, but its ftalks, being weak and 

 growing two or three feet high, fhould be properly fupported 

 to preferve its beauty from being marred by high winds or 

 heavy rain. Our drawing was made at Mr. Woodford s, 

 at Vauxhall, who received the feeds from Mr. Thouin, na- 

 tional gardener at Paris in the Spring of 1800, under the 

 name of C ac ali a fo?ub/foh'a / but as it neither anfwers to the 

 defcription cf that fpecies, nor at all refembles the fpecimens 

 preferved in the Bankfian Herbarium, we confider it as a to- 

 tally diftinft fpecies ; and not finding that it has been hitherto 

 defcribed or figured, we have given it a name expreffive 01 

 the colour of its flowers and a fpecific character, which we 

 believe will fufficiently diftinguifh it from every other known 

 fpecies. 



