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Lunaria. Tourn. InVt. R. H. 218. 2 
  the feed-vejls refemble tbe form of 
    THE Charaiers are, 
    THE Empalement of the Flowc 
and fall off, as A; the Flower haw 
entire : it hath, fix awl-fhaped Stan 
two are fhorter, terminated by ere( 
Foot-ftalk, fupporting a.fhort Sty] 
becomes an erea1t, plain, comprefft 
the Style, having two Cells openir 
Kidney fhaped Seeds, which are b 
    THIs Genus of Plants is rai 
TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA, V 
n,..4 gttmina. and the Seeds are i 
    THE Specie is, 
    LUNARIlA (Rediviva) filiculis oblongis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 653. Sattin Flower
with oblong Pods. 
Lunaria major, filiqu! longiore, ,J. B.2. 881.. Greater Moonwort with longer
Pods, commonly called 
Honefty, or White Sattin. Mill. Sp. I. 
    This fort grows naturally in Hungary, ifiria, and .4uflria, but has been
long an inhabitant 'of the 
Englifh Gardens. It is a biennal Plant, which perifhes foon after the Seeds
are ripe; it rifes with a branch- 
ing Stalk from two or three Feet high, covered with a reddifh hairy bark,
fending out Branches on 
every Side from the Ground upward; thefe are garniihed with heart-fhaped
Leaves placed alternately, 
ending in acute Points indented on their edges, and are a little hairy; the
lower ftanding upon pretty 
long Foot Stalks, but the upper fit clofe to the Branches.  The Flowers are
produced at the Top 
and from the Side of the Branches toward their end, in Clufters; they are
compofed of four 
purplifh heart-fhaped Petals, placed in form of a crofs. Thefe appear in
May, and are fucceeded 
by large flat roundifh Pods, with two Cells inclofing two rows of flat kidney-fbaped
Seeds, which have 
a border round them. Thefe Pods when ripe, turn to a clear white or fattin
colouri from whence the 
Title of Sattin Flower has been given to it. Mill. Gard. Dia. 
                              P     L      A     T     E       LVIII. 
 Lychnis. Tourn. Inft. R, 1H. 333. Tab. 175. Lin. Gen. Plant. 584, (fo called
of  a  a Candle or 
               light, becaufe the Flowers of this Plant imitate the Flame
or Rays of Light. 
     THE Charaders are defcribed in Plate 33. 
     THIE Specie reprefented here, is, 
     LYCHNIS (Chalcedonica) floribus faciculatis faftigiatis.  Hort. Cliff.
174. Campion with Flowert 
  gathered into a Pyramid. Lychnis hirfuata, flore coccineo, major. C. B.
P. 203. Greater hairy 
  Campion with a fcarlet flower. Mill. Sp. I. 
      THis fort is commonly known by the Title of fcarlet Lychnis ; the Flowers
of this are very double 
  and are efteemed for the Size of the Flowers and multiplicity of the Petals;
as alfo for its duration, as it 
  continues much longer in beauty than the fingle flowers, and makes a finer
Appearance. This is propa- 
  gated by fowing the Seed, on a Border expofed to the eaft in the middle
of March, and the beginning of 
  Yune, the Plants will be fit to remove, when there fhould be a bed of common
Earth prepared to 
  receive them, into which they fhould be planted about four inches apart,
obferving to water and fhade 
  them till they have taken root, after which Time they will require no farther
care but to keep them 
  clean from Weeds, till the following Autumn, when they fhould be tranfplanted,
where they are to 
  continue.   This flowers in )rune and July. Mill. Gard. DiO. 
      No. XV. 
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