LUBINIA ATROPURPU'REA. 
DARK PURPLE LUBINIA. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
PRIMULACE iE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
C. G. Hope. 
2 feet. 
July, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1820. 
No. 461 . 
Lubinia is a name adopted by Commerson, in 
honour of M. de St. Lubin, a French traveller, to 
the East. Atropurpurea, from the Latin ater, sig- 
nifying dark; and purpura, purple. Dr. Hooker 
connects it with the genus Lysimachia. 
This is a plant of singular appearance, which has 
hitherto been, principally, found in the collections of 
curious florists. Its great depth of colouring, w hen 
examined individually, gives it a somewhat sombre 
cast ; but in the borders, when well grown, and hav- 
ing the sun’s rays to brighten its rich tints, it be- 
comes an interesting ornament. It is not, however, 
in the borders alone that we have sought its beauty. 
We have searched it with microscopic eye; and the 
result, as is usual with diligent enquirers into the 
works of nature, presents us with additional evidence 
of human incapacity to comprehend the beauty of 
•the arrangements by which we are surrounded. 
On examining the deep crimson petals of the 
Lubinia, under a magnifier, we observed a number 
of minute pearl-like substances, spread over their 
whole interior surface. Its crimson filaments were 
also similarly gemmed. They appeared as grains 
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Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
