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dark back-ground of the leaves, appeared to give a third colour to 

 the flowers. It is a pretty dwarf plant for rock- work, and has 

 succeeded well during the present moist cool season. The 

 plants, however, sometimes die off unequally. 



(Enothera bistorta Veitchiana . . . Veitch. 



A showy yellow-flowered annual, dwarfish, but irregular in 

 growth, the stems decumbent, rising at the points to a foot or 

 more in height ; the leaves lanceolate, attenuate at the poiufe, 

 wavy-margined ; the flowers solitary from the leaf axils, abundant, 

 about 1 inch in diameter, four-petaled, forming a compact circular 

 corolla of a bright yellow,- with a small crimson spot at the base 

 of each petal. The flowers were apparently stalked, the stalk-Hke 

 part being in reality the slender ovary an inch or more in length, 

 which becomes a twisted capsule. The flowers were individually 

 bright-coloured and attractive, but the plant had rather a strag- 

 gling appearance, and in the present season the demerit of 

 dying off early and irregularly. 



(_ Carter & Co. 

 The plants raised from seed sent under this name were diffuse- 

 growing showy annuals, forming a mass of branches over a foot in 

 height, the taller ones rising to a foot and a half; the lower 

 leaves were downy, sinuately or somewhat lyrately pinnatifid, the 

 upper ones very slightly toothed. The flowers were large, pale 

 yellow, and showy. It was considered as a good bold-flowered 

 dwarfish plant for the front parts of shrubbery borders. 

 (Enothera salicifolia. 



Syn : (E, Uennis hirsutissima . . Carter & Co. 



CE. versicolor . . . .Of some, 



A tall-growing plant with the habit of (E. biennis. The leaves 



was of weedy unattractive character, the plants being coarse, and 

 the flowers dingy. 



Papaver somnifernm monstrosum . . Van Houtte. 

 A curious rather than ornamental plant, of tall growth, like the 

 common Opium Poppy, and with similar large dull purplish black- 

 spotted flowers. The flower-heads were remarkable for producing 

 a number of small ovaries around the base of ^he principal one, 

 after the manner of the Hen-and-Chickens daisy. 



