Caption:
Mexican pink, fringed Indian pink, cardinal catchfly, Mexican campion, or cut-petalled catchfly, Silene laciniata. Native to Mexico and introduced by George Canning in 1823. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxtons Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 1, Orr and Smith, London, 1834.