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the flowers, a brilliant scarlet, tubular or trumpet- shaped, ter- 

 minating in five unequal divisions stamen and pistil pro- 

 jecting; fbwers solitary, produced in the axils of the leaves; 

 continuing in bloom most of the season ; tender in wet soil, but 

 has proved hardy, with a little protection, in light soil, 

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