Crossword-Solution: ANAGALLIS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Moreover, as Gärtner repeatedly crossed some forms, such as the common red and blue pimpernels (Anagallis arvensis and coerulea), which the best botanists rank as varieties, and found them absolutely sterile, we may doubt whether many species are really so sterile, when intercrossed, as he believed.

Anagallis collina: Red variety crossed by a distinct plant of the red variety, and red variety self-fertilised.

The pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis) is one of these, hence its name of the "Shepherd's Weather-glass." This little flower closes, no doubt, to prevent its pollen-dust being washed away, for it has no honey; while other flowers do it to protect the drop of honey at the bottom of their corolla.

PIMPERNEL (_Anagallis arvensis_).—A beautiful blue variety once came up in the kitchen-garden at Otterbourne House, and prevailed for several years.

The common bind-weed closes its flowers on the approach of rain; but the anagallis arvensis, or scarlet pimpernel, is the most sure in its indications as the petals constantly close on the least humidity of the atmosphere.