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these selected plants were considered very fine : quite first-class 

 amongst annuals. 



Leptosiphon hybridns Vilmorin. 



This was a very interesting hybrid, the result, doubtless, of a 

 cross between L. luteus and L. androsacetis, the peculiarities of 

 these two species being evident amongst the varied progeny. 

 The plants were dwarf and compact in habit, generally about 4 

 inches high, the flowers of several distinct colours, and for the 

 most part larger than in L. luteus. Some were of a clear rosy- 

 lilac colour, and very ornamental in character; others were 

 more rosy, some of a coppery-red, some buff or chamois, and a 

 few identical with L. luteus and luteus aureus. In its present 

 state, this hybrid is too mixed and uncertain in character, but if 

 some of the brighter-coloured of the forms can be perpetuated, 

 they will become elegant additions to a very ornamental genus. 



Lobelia bicolor. 



Syn : L. gracilis Carteb & Co. 



L. Erinus oculata 



L. Erinus oculata alba 



L. Erinus . 

 L. Erinus compacta 

 L. Erinus grandijiora . 

 L. Erinus ramosoides . 



Thompson. 

 Carteb & Co. 

 Carter & Co. 

 Van Houtte. 

 Carter & Co. 

 Carter & Co. 

 Carter & Co. 

 Van Houtte. 



This is the pale blue Lobeha so extensively cultivated under the 

 name of L. gracilis : to which species, however, it has very slight 

 resemblance. The plants were of diffuse habit, with angular, 

 prostrate, smoothish or hairy stems; the lower leaves obovate, 

 sinuately-toothed ; the upper ones lanceolate, becoming more and 

 more entire upwards ; the flowers pale or grayish-blue, with a 

 white blotch at the base of the lower lip, this white blotch varying 

 in size, and more or less spotted with black. This sort was dis- 

 tinguishable from the rest by its diffuse habit and pale-coloured 

 flowers, and is of no importance in decorative gardening. 

 Lobelia bicolor albida. 



Stn : L. erinoides alba . . .Van Rovtib. 



This variety had the habit of L. bicolor, the flowers having a pale 

 blue tube, and a white or grayish-white limb. 



