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Pedicles short, rough, and puhesceiit. Calyx deeply
5-parted, 5-angular at the hase, slightly tuherculate:
segments erect, narrowly lanceolate, sharp-pointed,
slightly keeled, with memhranaceous margins. Corolla
salver-shaped; with a long tuhe, ahout twice the length
of the limb, curved, striate, smooth and glossy, purple;
limb divided into 5 roundly ohovate quite entire segments,
o f a bluish purple, starred at the base with a red
purple, and fading to nearly hlue. Stamens 5, inserted
in different parts of the tube, two of them exserted
partly beyond the mouth: filaments very short, inserted
in the back of the anthers: pollen orange-coloured.
Style slender, smooth, enclosed in the tube. Stigma
trifid, the segments spatulate, spi-eadiug.
Our drawing was made this Autumn, from fine spe-
cimeus kindly sent to us from the choice collection of
Robert Barclay, Esq., of Bury-hill, m ho received it the
year before from North America, sent hy Mr. Nuttall
as a new species, and it certainly is not the P. Carolina
of Pursh, judging from his description, which is more
applicable to P. trifiora; or perhaps he has confused
the two species together, as appears likely, by his giving
the P. trifiora oi Michaux as a doubtful synonym; but
we believe ours to be the plant intended by the authors
above referred to ; it thrives well in a rich light soil, hut
is sometimes destroyed by severe frost, or too much wet
in Winter, so that it is advisable to preserve some plants
in small pots, that they may be protected in frames in
severe frost or very wet weather, or those plants in the
borders may be covered with some dry straw or litter
in severe frosty weather. Young plants are easily raised,
as cuttings taken off in a young state, and planted under
handglasses, will soon strike root.
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1. Calyx. 2. Tube o f the Corolla spread open, to show the insertion o f the
Stamens. 3. Germen, te rmina ted by the smooth slende r Style, and trifid Stigma.
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