NUTTAL'LIA PAPA'VER. 
POPPY-FLOWERED NUTTALLIA. 
Class. Order. 
MONA DELPHI A. POLYANDRIA . 
Natural Order. 
MALVACEAE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Louisiana. 
2^ feet. 
July, Oct. 
j Perennial. 
in 1833. 
No. 489. 
The present genus has been named in honour of 
Professor Nuttall of Cambridge, in New England. 
Seeds of this very showy plant were first sent by 
Mr. Drummond, from the southern states of North 
America, to this country, and distributed among sev- 
eral collections ; and although this took place so lately 
as the year 1833, yet in the last year, 1834, it might 
have been found in almost every nursery of repute in 
Great Britain. Such are the rapidly increasing 
means by which the rapidly increasing taste for bo- 
tanical pursuits is met and gratified. It is produc- 
tive of pleasure, in every point of view, to see so heal- 
thy a national appetite, receiving, daily, as it were, 
such delightful and wholesome stimulants from for- 
eign lands, — novel as well as exotic. It would not 
perhaps, be entirely correct to designate such mental 
food as devoid of all the qualities attendant on that 
of a grosser nature. ^ may be confessed as occa- 
sionally being a very little, the least in the world, 
as Miss Mitford would say, intoxicating. It is how- 
ever an intoxication of good in lieu of evil; not the 
intoxication of stupor, but vivacity — not producing 
the flush of fever, but the glow of health ; and an 
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