PLATE. CCCLAVIL. 
ANAGALLIS GRANDIFLORA. 
Great-flowered Pimpernel. 
CLASS. V. ORDER TI. 
-PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Capsuza 1-locularis, circumscissa. Corolla CapsuLe one-celled, cut round. Corolla’ 
rotata. Stamina hirsuta. Stigma capi- wheel-shaped. Chives hairy. Summit 
tatum. headed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Awacatuis, foliis ternatis cordato-ovatis | ANAGALLIS, with leaves in threes heart-egg- 
acuminatis. shaped acuminated. 
Descriptio. Radix annua. Rami elongati, effusi, procumbentes, angulati, superne simplices. 
olia ternatim verticillata, remota, elliptica, acuminata, amplexicaulia, utrinque 3—5-lineata. Pedun- 
_ euli ternatim verticillati, axillares, filiformes, primo patuli, demum szpe recurvi, foliis duplo 
longiores. Calyx 4- rarius 5- phyllus, foliolis lanceolatis, acuminatis, carinatis, marginibus mem-— 
branaceis. Corolla 5- rarius 4- petala, petalis basi confluentibus, patulis, orbiculatis, coccineis, basi 
intus nigris. Filamenta 5 hirsuta, atro-purpurascentia, petalis multo breviora. Germen pallidum. 
* Stylus pergracilis purpureus antheras luteas superans. Stigma simplex, capitulatum, viride. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A peduncle and calyx. : 
2. The corolla spread open. 
3. The seed-bud and pointal, and summit magnified. 
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: Tus new and ae species of Anagallis, the largest and most showy of that genus hitherto discovered, 
was introduced into England, we believe, in the last year ; but by whom, or from what country, we have 
not yet satisfactorily ascertained. It is reported to be of African origin, and to have come to Eng- 
land from the Paris garden. Our figure was made from a plant trained up near three feet high, i in Lady 
De Clifford’s collection at Paddington, where it is treated as a green-house plant. We have not yet 
seen it produce good seeds, although apparently an annual plant; but it is easily increased by cuttings — 
in the usual way. In every thing except size, and in having more entire petals, it very much resembles 
Anagallis arvensis; a plant truly remarkable for being the only one inaigea to Britain (the Poppies 
excepted) with scarlet flowers. 
