NATIVE AND CULTIVATED FLOWERS. 



II 



FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS. 



Following is a partial list of the flowers, mainly European, cultivated in the 

 Mexican gardens. 



Among them any flowers which embellish the meads and adorn the gardens of 

 Mexico, says the old historian Clavigero, there are some worthy to be mentioned, 

 either from their singular beauty, or their extraordinary forms. 



The Floripundo merits the first mention, on account of its size, a beautiful white 

 and odoriferous flower, more than eight inches in length and four in diameter. 

 The yollocxockitl, or flower-of-the-heart, is so fragrant that a single one will fill a 

 whole house with its perfume, while the Coatzontecoxochitl, or viper's-head, is of 

 incomparable beauty, and highly esteemed by the Mexicans. The Oceloxochitl, or 

 tiger-flower, is so called, because spotted like an ocelot, or tiger; the Cacaloxochitl, 

 or raven-flower, (the frangipanni), is very odorous, and is made by the Spaniards 

 into conserves ; the Chempoalxochitl, is the Indian carnation ; the Xiloxochitl, a 

 beautiful red flower, and the Macphalxochitl, or flower-of-the-hand, a most wonderful 



