ANAGALLIS FRUTICOSA. 
SHRUBBY ANAGALLIS. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Oi'der. 
PRIMULACE/E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Morocco 
2 feet. 
May, Aug. 
Biennial. 
in 1803. 
No. 485. 
The original Anagallis of the Greeks received its 
name on account of its medicinal virtues. It was 
thought to cure the spleen and induce cheerfulness. 
The term fruticosa*, from the Latin frutex, a shrub, 
is applied in allusion to the firmness to which its 
herbaceous stems attain. 
This beautiful species of Anagallis, though long 
known in our greenhouses, has not, till of late, held 
a prominent place in the general flower garden. 
We shall not recommend it on account of the medi- 
cinal properties connected with its name. The very 
place of its habitation supersedes the necessity of 
its virtues. As Cowper says, 
“ The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns ; 
The low’ring eye, «the petulance, the frown. 
And sullen sadness, that overshade, distort. 
And mar the face of beauty, when no cause 
For such immeasurable woe appears ; 
These Flora banishes, and gives the fair 
Sweet smiles and bloom less transient than her own.” 
It is the mode of culture alone, by which the posses- 
sor of the hardy flower garden, avails himself of the 
pleasure of displaying such plants as the Anagallis 
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