PLATE CCCCXV. 
CANTUA CORONOPIFOLIA. 
Coronopus-leaved Cantua. 
CEhASS GhDPpEE: F 
2: MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx 3—5 . Corolla infundibuliformis. EMPALEMENT from three- to five-cleft. Blos- 
Stigma — . Capsula_trilocularis, som funnel-shaped. Summit trifid. Cap- 
rielliciesie Semina alata. sule three-celled, three-valved, many- 
alee seeded. The seeds winged. 
_ SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &ce. 
Cantva, floribus terminalibus, staminibus es Cantua, with terminal flowers, chives the 
longitudine corollz, foliis pinnatifidis. _ length of the blossom, and feather-cleft 
leaves. 
Cantva (coronopifolia). Willd. Sp. P].1. ore 
PoLeMonivu (rubrum), foliis pinnatifidis linearibus, floribus racemosis pendulis. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. 
p. 231, 
_ Ipomea (rubra). Linn. Syst. Vag. 171, 
Iromorsis. (elegans), minutim pubescens, foliis lineari-pinnatifidis. Mich. Fl. Boreali- Americ. 1. 142. 
JAMOCLIT pinnatum erectum, floribus in a ‘Dill. Hort. Elth, 321, tab, 241. fig. 312. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1 The empalement, — 
2. The blossom spread open, vais dic chivis attached. 
4. The seed-bud and pointal, with the summit magnified. 
AttuouGu the Coronopus-leaved Cantua was Sobbistes i in Sherard’s celebrated garden at Eltham, in 
the time of Dillenius, and is figured by him, in the Hort, Elth. above cited, as a species of Quamoclit, 
it has been an entire stranger to our modern gardens until very Jateiy; having no doubt long since 
perished in all the old collections. 
Who the reintroducer of this very elegant vbanr is, we have yet to learn : but the beautiful specimen 
here figured, was obligingly communicated to us by the Marquis of Blandford, from White Knights, 
Berks, about the end of November last. 
is a native of Carolina, and sufficiently hardy, we should think, to resist the cold of our ordinary 
ng its root 29 weer - and the plant admits of increase by parting the same, in spring or 
Writers have differed in a very remarkable manner soncieing the Genus to which they should refer 
this plant; and Linnzus himself seems to have been as undetermined as any of them concerning it ; 
having at different times given itasa Polemonium, and an Ipomea ; as will appear among our synonyms 
above. Michaux has calledit Jpomopsis: and another foreign writer, whose work we have not got, has 
given it the appellation of Noothea Pulchella : but Willdenow has added it to the genus Cantua, with 
; ion, it sufficiently accords; end have therefore ventured to 
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