LYCH NIS CORONATA. 
CHINESE LYCHNIS. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CARYOPHYLLEiE. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Cultivated 
China. 
18 inches. 
June, July. 
Perennial . 
in 1774. 
No. 148. 
Lychnis, from the Greek luchnis, a lamp, was 
probably applied by the ancient botanists to some 
of the present Lychnis tribe on account of the infla- 
ted semi-transparent calyx that they produce. Cor- 
onata from the Latin, crowned ; in allusion to its 
crown or head of flowers. 
This species of Lychnis is extremely gay and 
brilliant, and well deserves a place in every flower 
garden. It has usually been considered a green- 
house plant, which accounts for it not being more 
generally sought after by the cultivator of the hardy 
beauties of the garden. It certainly cannot be con- 
sidered so completely weather-proof as many of our 
old standards of the parterre, but a temporary cover- 
ing of straw or mats, during severe frosts, will effec- 
tually protect it. 
A safe plan for the preservation of the Lychnis 
coronata is to take a portion of the plant, in the be- 
ginning of September, and put it into a pot : if the 
pot be then sunk in the soil it will require but little 
attention in watering, and when frosts commence it 
may be removed to a cold frame, or other protection 
from its severity. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 133. 
