DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 115 



A. vernaliSj is a liardy 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."] 



Ag^ratlim Mexicaniim, is a handsome, half-hardy an- 

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

 continues to bloom through the summer; also through 

 the 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. 



ALONSOA. 



[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. 



