RED CAUVlO]<i.—Z?/c/mis dioica. 



Class Decandria. Order Pentagtnia. Nat. Orel. Caryo- 



PHYLLE^.— ChIOKWEED TrIBE. 



The attention of wanderers in green meadows 

 is often attracted by this handsome flower. 

 Though no sweet odoiir reaches us as the mnd 

 blows over the hedge-bank on which it 

 flourishes, yet the absence of fragrance is 

 compensated by its beauty, and it is con- 

 spicuous among the many flo^vers of May or 

 of the still richer month of June. Country 

 people call this, as well as another species, 

 Bachelor's Button. It is frequently one or 

 two feet in height. 



There is a white variety of this flower, which 

 may easily be known by its resemblance to it 

 in all respects, save the hue of its blossoms. It 

 has a sweet fragrance in the evening, and is on 

 this account called by some botanists Lychnis 

 vesperthia. It is occasionally cultivated as a 

 border flower ; but though its perfume is 

 agreeable, yet it is far less powerful than that 

 of some night-flowxring blossoms ; such, for 

 example, as the night-blowing Stock of our 

 gardens, or the night-flowering Catchfly of 



