Parkinson describes and figures it in his _Parad. Terrest._ observing that "divers allured by the beauty of its flowers, had brought it into these parts." [319] Anagallis Monelli. Italian Pimpernel. _Class and Order._ Pentandria Monogynia. _Generic Character._ _Cor._ rotata. _Caps._ circumscissa 1-locularis, polysperma. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ ANAGALLIS _Monelli_, foliis lanceolatis caule erecto. _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 196._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 201._ ANAGALLIS coerulea foliis binis ternisve ex adverso nascentibus. _Bauh. Pin. 552._ ANAGALLIS tenuifolia Monnelli. _Clus. app. alt._ [Illustration: N^o. 319] In Italy and Spain, where this plant grows spontaneously, it is an annual, producing seed in abundance; with us (as far at least as we have observed) it produces no seed, but like the _Senecio elegans_, and some other annuals, is renewed, and rendered perennial by cuttings, which strike freely, and by which the plant requires to be renovated once or twice in a season; though described as growing with an upright stem, it requires to be tied up to a stick; and if this be neatly and dexterously done, its brilliant azure flowers springing from every side of the stem, render it a charming ornament for the greenhouse or window: it flowers during most of the year. Clusius called it _Anagallis Monnelli_, the first knowledge he had of the plant being from his friend Johannes Monnellus. On the same plant we find the leaves grow two, three, or four together, with flowers corresponding. [320] Lobelia Cardinalis. Scarlet Lobelia, or Cardinal's Flower. _Class and Order._ Syngenesia Monogamia. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 5-fidus. _Cor._ 1-petala, irregularis. _Caps._ infera 2, s. 3-locularis. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ LOBELIA _cardinalis_ caule erecto, foliis lato-lanceolatis serratis, racemo terminali secundo. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 801._ _Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 284._ RAPUNTIUM galeatum virginianum, coccineo flore majore. _Moris. Hist. 2. p. 466. s. 5. t. 5. f. 54._ TRACHELIUM Americarum flore ruberrimo, sive Planta Cardinalis. The rich crimson Cardinal's Flower. _Park. Parad. p. 356. t. 355._ [Illustration: N^o. 320] This species of _Lobelia_, so eminently distinguished for the richness of its scarlet blossoms, is a native of the colder as well as warmer parts of North-America. Parkinson, who cultivated it in 1629, informs us that he received plants of it from France for his garden, and that "it groweth neere the river of Canada, where the French plantation in America is seated."