Scarlet calamint, Clinopodium coccineum. Named by English botanist Thomas Nuttall from a dried specimen brought from Florida. Scarlet-flowered cunila, Cunila coccinea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1827.

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