[Pirate 100.] 
THE SCARLET SALPIGLOT. 
(SALPIGLOSSIS COCCINEA.) 
A beautiful half-hardy annual, of GARDEN ORIGIN, belonging to the Natural Order of LINARIADS. 
LL we know of this beautiful novelty is that it has been raised near Colchester, and that it was 
sent to us last August by Messrs. Henderson of Pine Apple Place. Tt seems to differ from other 
Salpiglots in nothing except colour, which is here of a clear vivid tender scarlet, charmingly relieved 
by short veins of a deeper colour. As a garden plant it possesses high claims to distinction, for there 
are few annuals that equal it. 
In a Botanical point of view it seems to confirm Mr. Bentham's opinion that all the so-called 
species of the genus, known by the names of atropurpurea, straminea, picta and Barclayana are mere 
forms of one wild but variable species, the S. sinuata of the Flora Peruviana, among which there is in 
reality no character available for specific distinction. 
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