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proper character, the branches were studded over thickly with 

 little leafy points, giving them a shaggy or '* mossy" character. 



This was however no improvement, but a mere curiosity of 

 growth. 



Calliopsis cardaminsefolia .... . Van Houtte. 



Like the well-known (7. hicolor {tinctorio) this proved to be a very 

 ornamental plant, and distinct in character from its broad leaf- 

 segments, and yellower capitulse. Its root-leaves proved to be 

 distinct from those of the stem, and enduring, not perishing 

 like those of C hicolor ; they were bipinnate, with pinnatifid 

 leaflets, the ultimate divisions being lanceolate. The stems 

 grew 2 feet high, and bore a profusion of large flower heads, with 

 orange-yellow florets, dark crimson at the base, similar to those 

 of C, hicolor, to which it is about equal in merit. 



Thompson. 



Calliopsis cardaminsefolia hybrida . . \ Haage. 



TUENER 



This was sent by Mr. Thompson as a variety of <7. Atkinsonimia , 

 and proved more like C hicolor than the preceding. It grew 

 3 feet high, of erect habit, and compactly branched, the flower 

 heads, probably owhig to dry weather, rather small ; they were 

 yellow, moi'e or less heavily stained at the base with dark 

 crimson. The plants from Mr. Haagb's seed, were still more 

 remarkable for their dense compact close-branched erect habit, 

 the individual plants forming little upright formal-looking bushes 

 Ij feet high, and from 1 foot to I| through, clothed with the 

 flowers. 



Calliopsis coronata. 



A fine annual, not new, but deserving of naore extended cultiva- 

 tion. The plants grew about 9 feet high, and bore broad ovate 

 hlunt-stalked leaves, which sometimes had and sometimes wanted 

 one or two small basal leaflets. The flower heads were large, 

 throwu well up above the leaves, their florets broad, toothed at 

 the end, orange-yellow, marked near the base with small dark 

 spots forming a ring around the disk. This is one of the better 

 class of annuals, and along with Q\Dru7nmondii, C. hicolor, and 

 Gosmidium Burridgii, all having a certain amount of similarity, 

 may be generally recommended. 



Calliop 



Carter & Co. 



A handsome late flowering sort, with something the habit and 



