Crossword-Solution: VISCARIA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The crossed flowers of Linaria and Viscaria yielded far more seeds than the self-fertilised flowers; and although the plants raised from the former were taller than those from the latter, they were not so in any corresponding degree.

These fifteen species consist of Brassica oleracea, Reseda odorata and lutea, Limnanthes douglasii, Papaver vagum, Viscaria oculata, Beta vulgaris, Lupinus luteus, Ipomoea purpurea, Mimulus luteus, Calceolaria, Verbascum thapsus, Vandellia nummularifolia, Lactuca sativa, and Zea mays.) For instance, with Ipomoea purpurea every single intercrossed plant exceeded in height its self-fertilised opponent until the sixth generation; and so it was with Mimulus luteus until the fourth generation.

Recently however, I have discovered a species, _Viscaria oculata_ which allows of counting twisted specimens in the pans, and I may soon be able to obtain proofs of this assertion.

Clarkia Collinsia Coreopsis Cornflower Erysimum Eschscholtzia Gilia tricolor Godetia Iceland Poppy Larkspur, dwarf rocket Leptosiphon Limnanthes Douglasii Linaria, pink Nemophila Nigella, Miss Jekyll Papaver glaucum Phacelia tanacetifolia Poppy, Shirley Saponaria calabrica Scabious Silene Sweet Sultan Venus’ Looking-glass, purple Virginian Stock Viscaria Whitlavia Sow thinly, not later than the middle of the month in cold districts, but September will be early enough in the Southern counties.

The Red German Campion (_Lychnis Viscaria_) has an extremely sticky ring below each joint of the stem and inflorescence, which is most fatal to any creature which attempts to climb to the flowers.