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lost, as I do not find any further notice of it. The other 

 species, then called coccinea, was actually flowered by Mr. 

 John Fraser, at Chelsea, in June 1803, when it was figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine ; this plant afterwards perished : 

 Mr. Fraser is said to have obtained it from France in 1802, 

 the same year in which it was introduced from Spain into the 

 French gardens. It also appears that in the autumn of 1803, 

 Mr. Woodford flowered at Vauxhall, a plant of Cava- 

 nilles' rosea, which he had obtained from Paris, so that, in- 

 pendently of the one introduced by the Marchioness of 

 Bute, in 1789, it seems that both species had flowered in 

 this country, before the seeds were transmitted by Lady 

 Holland. 



It will be impossible, separately, to describe all the varie- 

 ties at present existing ; but it may be curious to trace the 

 progress of their increase, in which it seems as if some period 

 of actual cultivation were required, before the fixed qualities 

 of the native plant gave way, and began to sport into those 

 changes which now so much delight us. 



At Madrid they were a long time in the Royal Garden 

 without any indications of change ; and it will be seen that 

 after they were spread through Europe, some years elapsed 

 before any extensive increase of variation took place. 



Of the three sorts described by Cavanilles, one (his 

 pinnata ) was semi-double ; there were only three plants sent 

 to Mons. Thouin in 1802, from Madrid, and we must con- 

 clude, that they were the same as those noticed by Cava- 

 nilles, because, Mons. Thouin, in his description of each 

 of them, separately refers to the figures and descriptions of 

 Cavanilles' Icones. 



