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THE GOLDEN-FLOWERED DIELYTRA. 
(DIELYTRA CHRYSANTHA.) 
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A handsome hardy Herbaceous Plant, from CALIFORNIA, belonging to the Order of Fumeworts. 
THE GOLDEN-FLOWERED DIELYTRA. Stem tall, DIELYTRA CHRYSANTHA ; caule elato folioso ramoso, 
i foliis n 1 i acuti 
leafy, branching. Leaves twice or thrice pinnate, with : 2—3-pinnatim sectis segmentis linearibus tis 
linear acute segments. Panicle lo paniculê elongatá, bracteis calycibusque latè 
and calyxes broad-ovate, blunt. Petals spatbulate, the ovatis obtusis, petalis spathulatis exterioribus basi vix 
outer scarcely gibbous at the base; the inner with a gibbosis, interioribus dorso feré per totam suam longitu- 
broad wing along almost the whole length of the back. dinem lato-alatis, stigmate latissimo truncato.— Hooker 
Stigma very broad, truncate. and Arnott. 
Dielytra chrysantha : Hooker and Arnott, Botany of Beechey’s voyage, p. 320, t. 73. 
THs very handsome hardy perennial was originally discovered in California by Douglas, from موه‎ 
specimens it was published in the work above quoted. More recently it has been found in the 
same country by Mr. W. Lobb, from whose seeds Messrs. Veitch succeeded in raising it. It 
flowered in the Exeter nursery for the first time last September. 
It forms a handsome tuft of firm very glaucous foliage, sometimes much more finely cut than in 
our figure, and in general texture and colour resembling Garden Rue. Among the leaves rise stiff 
branching panicles of rich golden-yellow blossoms. 
Although very inferior to Dielytra spectabilis, this has a beauty of its own, which will render it a 
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