'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle 'Extraordinary and Fatal combat

'Extraordinary and Fatal combat

The company closed on 1970

a member of the King's Privy Council

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

A poem in Punch

'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle 'Extraordinary and Fatal combatBotanical 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