DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 115 



A. vernallS) is a hardy perennial border-flower, bloom- 

 ing in May, of easy culture. The flowers are yellow, 

 large and rather cup-shape ; one foot high. 



AGERATUM. 



[A name employed by Dioscovides, and probably applied by him to some 

 plants similar to what we call "everlasting."] 



Mexicanum, is a handsome, half-hardy an- 

 nual, with light-blue flowers, in compound corymbs. It 

 continues to bloom through the summer; also through 

 thj3 winter, when kept in the green-house, and is desirable 

 for bouquets. There is also one with white flowers, but it 

 is not so free a bloomer, and one with variegated foliage. 



ALON30A. 



[Named by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, after Zanoni Alonzo, at the 

 time of the publication of that work, Spanish Secretary for the Kingdom of 

 Santa Fe, and a great patron of Natural History.] 



Beautiful green-house plants with scarlet flowers, but 

 bloom finely in the open ground, when treated like other 

 tender annuals. 



A, incisifolia. Nettle leaved Alonsoa. It has nettle 

 shaped foliage, but delicate and pretty ; it flowers all the 

 season. 



A. graildiflora has larger flowers, which are also scar- 

 let ; plants one to two feet high. 



