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petal; and ia this state it is a very elegant dwarf annual, with 

 the flowers, however, smaller than in N, imignis and inacidata, 



Obeliscaria aurantiaca . . • . Thompson. 



A neat and rather desirable late-flowering plant for the borders. 

 It grew 2 feet high, and the flower-heads, which were supported 

 above the herbage on stalks a foot long, were remarkable for the 

 thick oblong dark-coloured disk upwards of an inch long, with the 

 florets hanging as it were in a single row around its base. These 

 drooping florets were concave, or boat-shaped, yellow with a 

 dark chocolate-brown base, and when flattened out were nearly 

 orbicular. The leaves were elegantly blpinnatifid with narrow 

 segments. 



(Enothera bistorta Veitchiana . . . Carter &, Co. 



This showy and bright-looking annual, manifested similar 

 qualities to those reported on in the damp season of 1860 ; the 

 flowers were bright-coloured, and abundant, but the plant was 

 rather straggling in habit. It is a pretty border flower, and 

 suited for situations where symmetry of growth is not required. 



(Enothera Lamarclriana. 



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Stn : (E. grandiflora Lamarckiana . Carter & Co. 



CE. grandiflora, of LajnarcJc, not of Aiton. 



This proved to be a very showy large-growing border plant, and 

 one of the best certainly of the large -growing Evening Primroses. 

 It grew about 3 feet high, and had long spathulate-lanceolate 

 finely downy root leaves, which were wavy on the margins and 

 somewhat toothed ; the stem leaves were sessile, broadly 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. The flowers were large and 

 numerous, those which were undeveloped at the end of the stem, 

 forming a kind of corymb, which ultimately lengthens into a 

 raceme ; the petals, which were of a bright clear palish yellow, 

 were broad obcordate and over-lapping. In the bud state the 

 long.pointed calyx, which was tinged with tawny red, had its lobes 

 separated at the tips. 



*' (Enothera Jamesii" . . . . . Thompson. 



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Under this name, which is that used by the German seedsmen, 

 was received a plant very different from the species so called by 

 botanists. This was a tall plant, 4 to 5 feet high, with root 

 leaves similar to those of (E. Lamarlciana, but those of the stem 



much more numerous, and of a narrowish lanceolate form. The 



