more hardy its treatment the brighter the colour of the bracts. 
Both have the merit of continuing in flower three or four months 
at atime. Their involucres are of a dry, membranaceous cha- 
racter, and would probably retain their colour and form for a 
long time in a dried state, like the Xeranthemums and other 
so-called Hverlastings. 
Descr. The figure will show, almost better than words can 
do, how this plant differs from G@. tulipifera. It is smaller, slen- 
derer, and more twiggy. The /eaves rather longer, but much 
narrower, and subspathulate. The dracts or folioles of the invo- 
lucre are narrower and less convolute, and less retuse at the apex. 
The flowers are very similar in structure; but we observe only 
five furrows in the lower part of the tube. 
Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Young flower. 3, 4. Bracteoles. 5. Vertical section of a 
calyx. 6. Anther. 7. Stamen antl staminodium :—magnified. 
