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Its Leaves not unlike the common Campions, with fraall 
white deep cut Flowers, in a rough furrowed Green (hort 
husk adhering to the Stalk. 
Candy Campion with purplifh Husks . 
Lychnis Cretica parvo flore, calyce ftriato purpuraf- Names. 
cente Coral. 24. 
This comes next the Bladder Campion kind, with fmall 
Flowers, and fmooth purplifh Husks. 
Hermans Cape fmooth Cockle. 
Pfeudo-Melanthium Capenfe ghbrum minus. Lychnis 10 5 
Pfeudo melanthio fimilis, Africana glabra, anguftifolia Names. 
Herm. H. Leyd. 393. fig. Lychnis fegetum Nigellafrum 
minus glabrum didta, fl. eleganter rubello Mor. H. Ox. p. 
534- 32. Lychnis minor feu Nigellaftrum minus fl. elegan- 
ter rubello Mor. Ox. Seft. v. Tab. 22. fig. ulf. 
This differs from our Corn Cockle, in having a lefs and 
paler naked Flower, with deep furrowed Husks and places. 
fmooth Leaves. Dr. Herman firft obferved this at the 
Cape of Good Hope , and fent it to Dr- Moriffon, whofe 
Figure very well agrees with it. 
Smyrna Purple fpiked Willowherb. 
LyfSmachia Orientalis anguftifolia, flore purpureo Com- 102 - 
mel. Pr&lud. Botan. 2. p. 3 3 . fig. opt. Luteoloe folio 8c fa - NamfS -- ■ 
cie, fl. purpurafcente, eapfula rotunda in fpinulam abe- 
unte Sherard. 
Under this laft Title Dr. Sherard fome Years fince fent 
me a Native Specimen of this from Smyrna , whofe Root Deftriptw* 
and Flowers were not a foot high 3 but in our Gardens 
it grows near as tall as a Man. Its lower Leaves are 
broad and pointed, but thofe on the Stalks narrow 5 the 
Flowers purple, and are thick fet in long Spikes, with 
round pointed Cap files. 
Cornutus his Indian Night fmelling Craneshil , Ray 1&3 
1057. 1 1 * Geranium trifle Cornuti 110. fig Mor. H. Ox. Names. - 
517. 2 6. Tab. 16. fig. Geranium ts ifle five Indicum , nodtu 
olens Park. 710. fig. Geranium Indicum no£te odoratum 
Munt 0 Phyt, fig. 166. opt. p. 603. 
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