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at the base, paler and creamy-white at the tips, multiplied so as 

 to form a semi-double " flower," the disk deep orange-yellow. 



ClarkiapulcheUamtegripetala . . -[yj™^ 

 This variety proved to be a fine and showy plant when true, but 

 seems scarcely to have become fixed in character, some of the 

 specimens being intermediate between it and the old type form 

 of the species. It grew Ij foot high, and in general habit and 

 foliage resembled the common sort ; the flowers were also of the 

 same rosy-purple colour, but the petals were flabellate, forming a 

 segment of a circle, without indentations on the outer margin, . 

 and clawed at the base. The intermediate plants had the petals 

 slightly indented. If the entire-petaled character can be ren- 

 dered permanent, this will be a very desirable flower. 



Clarkia pulcheUa marginata .... Tokneb. 

 Iq this variety the petals were deeply three-lobed, as m the 

 parent; rosy-purple at the base, the lobes more or less deeply 



but sportive, and ineffective in a 

 mass. On the whole, the variety was considered to be too dull 

 and indistinct for general cultivation, though when well marked 

 interesting as a fancy flower. 



ClarkiapnIcheUapuIcherrima . . , (~„^ 

 This was considered as a very much improved form of the species, 

 the flowers being large and of a deep bright crimson-tinted rose 

 TOlour, quite distinct from the purplish tint of the common sort. 

 The plant was similar, both in habit and fohage, to the older form, 

 ^ot on account of its larger flowers and brighter colour was much 

 more rich and effective, and had a very fine appearance in a mass. 



CoUinsia bartsiaefolia alba . . . Paekeb & Co. 

 This was determined to be a useful plant as a very dwarf-growing 

 white annual, but the flowers were not quite pure in colour. 

 -Liie plants were not more than 6 to 8 inches high, with minutely 

 glandular pubescent stems, branched from the base ; the leaves 

 ^ivate oblong, sessile, crenately toothed; the flowers numerous, 

 ^^hite, slightly tinged with blush. 



Oomn.abioolo.alba , . . {l^Zltco. 



This was decidedly inferior to C. bicolor candidissima. The plants 



