'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle A poem in Punch

A poem in Punch

Before the bonfire is lit the children and nursesplay ring-a-roses round the base which is 50 yards round

Middlesex'

The company closed on 1970

'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle A poem in PunchBotanical study of Phlox carolina, described by John Martyn in the Historia Plantarum Rariorum (1728 ) and reproduced there as plate 9, (sponsored by Johann Caspar Scheutzer). From a specimen grown at Chelsea Physic Garden, probably from originals gathered by Mark Catesby. Inscribed in ink 'Lychnidea Caroliniana foribus quasi umbellatim dispositis folio lucidis crassis acutus, Martyn. H. R. P. D.' Not signed. Watermarked 'LVG.' Original: watercolour