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single patches, they should have several sticks placed 

 around, and a string fastened, so as to keep the flower- 

 stalks tolerably erect ; by this attention a neat and hand- 

 some effect Avill be given. I adopt the use of cross- 

 strings, as well as a circular one, by which means I have 

 the shoots regularly disposed. E. crocea^ Saffron-colored 

 California Poppy, of a dark, bright saffron-color ; and M 

 alha^ White California Poppy, with white flowers, are 

 only varieties of E. Californica^ and require the same 

 treatment. 



E. tenuifolia^ is a species with very slender grass-like 

 leaves ; color of the flowers, pale whitish-yellow. All 

 are easily propagated by seeds, and where the plants 

 have scattered their seed upon the ground, a plentiful 

 supply of young plants may be found in the following 

 S23ring ; they should be thinned out one foot apart. It is 

 useless to attempt to transplant them, as it is very diffi- 

 cult to make them live. 



The name of this genus has been altered to Ghryseis^ 

 in disregard of the established custom among botanists. 

 Although it is a more elegant word than Eschscholtzia^ 

 yet that being the older name, must have the preference. 



EUPATORIUM. 



[Name from Eiipator, King of Poiitiis, who first u.'-ed it in medicine.] 



Eupatorium piirpurciim. — Purple Thoroughwort, Joe- 

 Pye Weed. — Purple flowers, in August ; perennial ; four 

 to six feet high ; indigenous ; leaves in fours and fives. 

 This plant cannot be said to be elegant, yet it is not des- 

 titute of beauty, and will be a valuable acquisition to the 

 shrubbery. Its tall stem terminates in large corymbs of 

 small sliining purple flowers. 



E. pcrfoliatum* — Bone-set or Thorough wort. — Is a plant 



