220 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



ClarJcla elcgans alba. — An erect and compact branching annual, from 12 

 to 16 inches high, with comparatively small foliage, and dense masses of 

 elegantly lobed snow-white flowers, 1 4 inch wide. 



Kaulfussia amelloides. — A dwarf species of neat habit, growing from 6 to 

 9 inches high, Avith narrow, strap-shaped leaves, and numerous bright, blue- 

 petalled, daisy-like flowers. 



Laslhenia californica. — A compact plant, rising about twelve inches high, 

 with narrow, bright green leaves, and a profusion of conspicuous golden- 

 yellow, chrysanthemum-like flowers, three quarters of an inch wide. 



Gilia nivalis. — A neat dwarf, slender annual, of branching habits, attain- 

 ing from 12 to 16 inches high ; with light foliage, and numerous branching 

 clusters of clear, creamy-white blossoms. 



Silene pendula. — An erect low-growing species, with a profusion of rosy- 

 red or pink lobed, salver-shaped flowers. 



Erysimum Peroffskianum. — A neat erect plant, reaching from 12 to 16 

 inches high, with small, wallflower-like leaves, and numerous terminal open 

 racemes of brilliant orange-colored blossoms. 



CoUinsia heterophylla. — An elegant dwarf, compact species, of neat habit, 

 with massive clustered racemes of white and purple flowers. 



Eiidiaridium grandiJJorum. — A very neat, compact, branching plant, 12 

 inches high, with small ovate leaves, and numerous rose-colored, Clarkia- 

 like blossoms, 1 inch in diameter. 



Callychroa plalyglossa. — A slender-stemmed annual, 12 inches high, with 

 neat linear leaves, and conspicuously bright yellow, close-petalled, Chrysan- 

 themum-like flowers, Ij inch wide. 



JVolana atriplidfolia. — A neat dwarf trailing plant, with fleshy, bluntly- 

 ovate, dark green leaves, and comparatively large azure-blue Convolvulus- 

 like flowers, 1^ inch wide. 



Sphenogyne speciosa. — An elegant habited plant, of dwarf and compact 

 growth, with narrowly divided deep green foliage, and a profusion of con- 

 spicuously clear, buff'-yellow single Marygold-like flowers, beautifully con- 

 trasted with a radiate circle of reddish-brown towards the centre. 



Eutoca viscida. — A compact growing annual, of branching habit, rising 

 from 12 to 16 inches high, with notched heart-shaped leaves, and numerous 

 close-lobed salver-shaped blossoms, of a rich ultra-marine blue tint. 



EschschoUzia crocea. — A highly ornamental annual (or biennial) plant, 

 from 12 to 16 inches high, with narrow lobed glaucous leaves, and a profu- 

 sion of large and brilliant orange-yellow Poppy-like flowers, 3^ inches in 

 diameter. 



Convolvulus minor atropurpureus. — A decumbent spreading plant, attain- 

 ing from 9 to 12 inches high, and ornamented Avith a profusion of large and 

 conspicuously rich, purplish-blue expanded funnel-shaped blossoms, 2 inches 

 wide. 



Leptosiphon densijlorus and L. androsaceus.— Both remarkably neat dwarf 

 species, Avith narroAv, dark green, needle or Larch-like leaves, and furnished 

 with numerous terminal clusters of variously shaded pale rose, pink, and 

 white lobed, salver-shaped flowers, in July and August. — [Gard. Chron., 

 1852, p. 213.) 



