323 EEPORT ON ANNUALS GROWN AT CHISWICK. 



Phacelia tanacetifolia alba .... Vilmobin. 

 This had the habit of the well-known species itself, and bore 

 dull grayish-white flowers. It was of weedy character. 



Portulaca. 

 Several varieties of this genus were grown, but all proved inferior 

 to the old P. Thelhisonii and P. splendens, which were the only 

 ones having rich and decided colours in their flowers. 



Pyrethrum Partheninin eximiom. 



Syn : Matricaria eximia .... TuRNEE. 



A fine late-flowering double quilled white Feverfew, of free com- 

 pact habit, growing 1^ to 2 feet high, and forming a handsome 

 border plant. The centre of the flower-heads was closely filled 

 with even tubular or quilled florets, and the flower-heads were 

 very numerous, pure white, forming an attractive mass. 



Ricinus. 

 Of these fine-foliaged plants, several kinds were planted out, but 

 the unpropitious season did not enable them to come to perfection. 



Schizanthus cMlensis .' . . . . Veitch. 

 This species grew 2 feet or more in height, and was more erect in 

 habit than the better known 8. pinnatus. The flowers were also 

 smaller than in that species, narrow, deep lilac with a smaller 

 white blotch on the central upper segments, where they 'vere 

 dotted with black. It was an inferior sort. 



ScMzanthus grandiflorus ocnlatus . . Van HourrE. 

 A very handsome form of S. pinnatus, growing about 1|- foot 

 high, branching, the stems clothed with glandular hairs; the 

 leaves pinnate, with pinnatifid segments. The flowers were bright 

 rosy-lilac, the upper lip divided into five obcuneate bipartite lobes, 

 whitish, heavily tipped with rose, and having a large black central 

 spot ; the lower lip rosy. The bold conspicuous eye rendered this 

 a very showy plant of its kind. In some of the plants, the 

 flowers were dotted with black instead of having the bolder blotch 

 which rendered the best form so attractive. 



Spragnea nmbellata Veitch. 



A dwarf succulent-looking herb, with a rosulate tuft of spathulate 

 leaves, and numerous scapes supporting the umbellate heads of 

 rosy-coloured flowers, which issued from among crowded whitish 

 or scarious bracts, and were arranged in short recurved scorpioid 



