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and are mucli cultivated in Holland, but are 

 not so frequent in oui- gardens as tlie common 

 scarlet kind. 



Two other very beautiful species of lychnis 

 are not rare. Tlae red flowers of the Chinese 

 lychnis (^Lychnis coronatd) are much valued 

 in China and Japan ; and the splendid lychnis 

 {^Lychnis fulgens) is a native of Siberia. Both 

 plants are well worth the care which the gar- 

 dener must bestow on them during the frost. 



Several smaller kinds of border flowers, as 

 the ragged robin, the pink bachelor's button, 

 and others, are species of lychnis ; and the 

 flowers termed catchfly are very nearly allied 

 to them. Of these we have a great number in 

 the garden, and several grow wild in our fields. 

 As Dr. Clarke observes, the weeds of one 

 country are the flowers of. another ; "accord- 

 ingly," says he, in his account of Sweden, 

 *' we found the common poppy and the night- 

 flowering catchfly cultivated with great care, 

 as ornaments of the little garden of the inn 

 where we rested." 



INIore than seventy kinds of catchfly are in 

 British gardens, and they are all more or less 

 covered with a glutinous substance, which, 

 having a sweet taste, is attractive to insects, 

 and prevents their escape from the flower. 

 The old writers called the plant limewoort, 

 Lobels catchfly (Sileiie armeria) is common in 

 most gardens, and the clammy species, Silenc 

 viscosa, well deserves its name. 



The flowers of the two species of fraxinella 



