red Belvidere, which we now figure. In that year a 
farmer from Alleghany, Pennsylvania, visiting Riverton, 
New Jersey, handed to Mr. J. W. E. Tracy some seed of 
this plant with the information that it had been collected 
from a wild specimen found growing in the woods near 
Alleghany. The seed was made over to Mr. Henry A. 
Dreer, who grew it, but did not, however, take the plant_ 
up. In the following year seed was made over to Mr. 
Burpee who gave the plant a trial, and placed it in his 
catalogue for the first time in 1900. Mr. A. J. Pieters, 
of Washington, to whom horticulture is obliged for this 
information, remarked in 1906 that after having grown 
the plant for four years, he had found it constant as 
regards the change of colour which is its most striking 
characteristic, but that it is apt, when checked in its 
growth, to revert to the opener habit which marks the 
true K. scoparia. It is interesting to note that shortly 
after the record of this experience by Mr. Pieters, 
Professor Beck was in a position to describe for the first 
time in Reichenbach’s “‘Icones” (vol. xxiv. p. 154: 
1908) a blood-red wild form as K. scoparia, forma 
sanguinea. For the introduction of the red Belvidere 
with filiform leaves to this country we are indebted to 
Messrs. Cannell and Sons, Swanley, who first brought 
it to notice in the autumn of 1901. Although the fact 
is not on record, it is probable that their seed may have 
come from the United States. The red Belvidere is now 
somewhat extensively used as a summer bedding plant 
in gardens, a purpose for which it is well suited. It 
comes true to seed, and the change in colour from bright 
green to magenta red takes place somewhat suddenly 
in autumn. The change appears to mark a stage in 
ripening, and to be unconnected with the climatic con- 
ditions encountered by the plant whether in this country 
or in North America. 
Descrietion.—Herb, annual, polygamous, much branched from the base, 
very leafy; crown globose, oblong or conic-pyramidal, 14-5 ft. in height ; 
branches and branchlets virgate, erect, at first thinly pubescent, soon nearly 
glabrous, though often laxly woolly towards the top and especially at the nodes. 
Leaves narrow linear or the uppermost nearly filiform, acute, the longest over 
din. long, Lin. or less wide, glabrous or the uppermost somewhat ciliate, all 
white-punctate. Flowers in threes or pairs, or solitary, sessile in the axils of the 
upper leaves, often surrounded at the base with loose wool, some female, some 
