You may consider it either as a stove or a green-house plant, the former is more congenial to it in the winter season.
A pure atmosphere is essential to its existence, as I experienced at Lambeth-Marsh, where I in vain endeavoured to cultivate it.
It is propagated by cuttings as easily as any Geranium, and requires a similar treatment; in hot weather it must be well supplied with water, and in winter carefully guarded against frost, so fatal to most of the natives of Peru.
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Scorzonera Tingitana. Tangier Scorzonera, or Poppy-Leav'd Vipers Grass.
Class and Order.
Syngenesia Polygamia Æqualis.
Generic Character.
Receptaculum nudum. Pappus plumosus. Calyx imbricatus, squamis margine scariosis.