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Agrostemma Cceli Rosa. Smooth-Leav'd 

 Cockle, or Rose Campion. 



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\ C7tz/> tftfd Order. 



Decandria Pentagynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. l-phyllus, coriaceus. Petala 5 unguiculata : limbo obtufo 

 indiviib. Ctf£/~. 1 locularis. 



Specific Char abler and Synonyms. 



AGROSTEMMA Cceli rofa glabra, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, 



petalis emarginatis coronatis. Unn. Syft. 



Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 435. Ait. Kezv. v. 2. 



p. 116. 

 LYCHNIS fegetum, Nigelladrum minus glabrum dicta, flore 



elegantcr mbello. Mori/, llijl. 2. p. 543*' 



/ 5- *. 22. f. 32. 

 LYCHNIS pfeudomelanthiis fimilis africana glabra angudi- 



folia. Hervi. Leyd. 391. /. 393. 



Mr. Ait on informs us in his Hortus Kewenfis, that the 

 charming annual here figured, the livelinefs of whofe colours 

 no paint can exprefs, was cultivated by Miller in 1739; 

 feeing it is a plant of fuch beauty, and honoured with fo 

 diflinguifhed an appellation, it is lingular that it fhould not by 

 this time have made its way more generally into our gardens. 



The Cockle of our corn-fields is an ornamental plant, the 

 prefcnt fpecies refembles it ; but while the plant itfelf is much 

 fmaller, its flowers are proportionably larger, and their colours 

 more vivid. 



It is an annual of ready growth, a'native of Sicily and the 

 Levant, flowering in July and Auguft, and ripening its lced< 

 in September and O&ober. 



It appears to 'mod advantage when fcvcral plants of it grow- 

 together ; the bed mode, therefore, is to low about a dozen 

 feeds early in April on the feveral fpots of the dower-border 

 where you intend they ftiall remain ; no other care is neceflary 

 than to keep the plants free from weeds and vermin. 



The Agr. Cceli rofa of Miller's Card. DicJ. ed. 6. \tc. is the 

 tcranaria. 



