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large as those of the common Wallflower. The flowers at first 

 formed a close head, but the inflorescence afterwards became 

 elongated. It was considered as a first-class bright yellow annual. 



Fenzlia dianthiflora .... Caetek & Co. 

 A beautiful little dwarf aunual, not more than 2 or 3 inches high, 

 forming a small compact tuft, with narrow leaves, and handsome 

 light rose-coloured Gilia-like flowers, paler towards the centre, 

 with a dark spot in the throat, the segments of the limb evenly 

 toothed at the ends. 



Gaillardia, new dwarf scarlet , . Van Houtte. 



Not distinguishable from the ordmary form of G. picta. 



GjrpsopMla muralis .... Caetee & Co. 

 A dwarf and very slender, much branched, divaricately diffuse 

 plant, forming a mass about 1 foot in diameter, with long linear 

 leaves, and small blush or pale pinkish flowers. It is a neat 

 plant for rock-work, pretty, but ineffective as a mass. 



Helianthus anauus californicus . Thompson. 



A large-flowered deep golden-yellow double Sunflower. 



Helichrysxun bracteatum incurvum. 



Syn : H. bracteatum nanum ferrngimim Tuenee. 

 H. compactum maonmum . . Tuenee. 

 H. compositum maximum . . Caetee & Co. 

 H. macranthum compositum maximum Thompson. 

 H. macranthum nanum . . Tukneb. 

 Tiiis plant (of which the older forms, bearing the scientific name 

 of Helichrymm bracteatum, are the yellow and white Everlast- 

 ings, long known as popular annuals), has, by admixture with 

 H. macranthum — another exotic form, undeserving of specific 

 distinction, having rosy-tipped flowers— given rise to a beautiful 

 race, which is distinguished by the large size of the flower-heads, 

 and the more numerous as well as smaller coloured involucral 

 scales which compose them, and which are gracefully incurved so 

 as to cover the disk. This incurving gives them a much richer 

 efiect than is seen in the older kinds, where the scales are 

 larger, and spread out so as to expose the disk wholly to view. 

 The species, in its various forms, is to be recommended for its 

 property of blooming late in the year, unaffected by the earlier 

 frosts of autumn. The forms here collected were improved 

 variations of the old'H. bracteatum, with larger and more varied- 



