'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle St Mary Overie's Church

St Mary Overie's Church

Janus in Roman mythology was the god of passageways and doorways

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loaded with gunpowder

A poem in Punch

'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle St Mary Overie's ChurchBotanical 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