This section is from the book "The Flower-Garden; Or, Breck's Book Of Flowers", by Joseph Breck. Also available from Amazon: The Flower-Garden: Or, Breck's Book Of Flowers.
Collamia coccinnea. - A very lively flower, growing in heads of bright carmine red, rather desirable and early. The seeds have, like some of the Salvias, the curious property of becoming invested with vegetable mucus when moistened with water.
 
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