Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 831 - Anagallis fruticosa (Shrubbery Pimpernel) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 831, Anagallis fruticosa (Shrubbery Pimpernel).

• Plate: 831
• Latin name: Anagallis fruticosa
• Common name: Shrubbery Pimpernel
• Linnaean class / order: Pentandria / Monogynia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 831 ]

ANAGALLIS FRUTICOSA. SHRUBBERY PIMPERNEL.

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Class and Order.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cor. rotata. Capf. circumscissa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
ANAGALLIS fruticosa; foliis ternis cordato-lanceolatis amplexicaulibus, caule fruticolo tereti: ramis angulofis. Ventenat. Pl. Seleẽt. 18. ANAGALLIS grandiflora. Bot. Repof. 367. Moft of the known fpecies of Anagallis fo nearly refemble each other, that it is not ealy to find botanical characters that will with fufficient accuracy diftinguish them, and this has led fome Botanifts to believe that moft of the fuppofed fpecies are mere varieties, deriving their origin from climate, foil, and cultivation. Some have carried this opinion fo far as to fuppofe that this fplendid plant is the offspring of ANAGALLIS arvenfis, improved by art, a notion however which appears to us fufficiently improbable. If there are no very prominent marks of diftinction except that of the fhrubby perennial ftalk, a change which fome other annuals have been known to undergo from climate and other circumftances, yet there are feveral differences, more minute indeed than might be wifhed, but which, when united, may be fufficient to diftinguish them. Thus in ANAGALLIS arvenfis the leaves and flower-ftalks are ufually oppofite, or if more than two, are generally by fours, rarely if ever three, which is the

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