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■which was first raised in Europe, but soon lost ; afterwards reintroduced 

 from this establishment. 



19. GuTiERREZiA GTMNOSPERMOIDES, Gray, froHi what is now called 

 Arizonia. A tall annual or biennial, with clusters of pure golden-yellow 

 flowers, highly commended by the French florists. Our season is hardly 

 long enough for it. 



20. LiNDHEiMERA Texaxa, Gray. An annual from Texas, of humble 

 growth, producing a long succession of neat flower-heads, having only four 

 or five golden-yellow rays, and much resembling a simple flower at first 

 view. Here and in France it is quite elegant, but it is insignificant in 

 England in the open air, for want of sufficient light and heat. 



21. Coreopsis coronata, Hook. This charming annual, from Texas, 

 was first raised in England, from Drummond's seeds, and figured in 

 the Botanical Magazine, but was lost at once. Through seeds from 

 Wight and Lindheimer, raised here, it is now well established in cul- 

 tivation. It considerably resembles C. Drummondi ; but the rays are more 

 extensively and more delicately marked with brownish purple lines and 

 blotches. 



22. Palafoxia Hookeriana, Torr. & Gray. This is the finest species 

 of the genus, much more showy than P. Texana, but broad ray-florets, of a 

 rich rose-color. This and 



23. Gaillardia ambltodon, Gray, also from Texas, perhaps the most 

 elegant of the Gaillardias, have been lost from this garden, but have proba- 

 bly been preserved in some of the European Botanic Gardens. A good 

 figure of this Gaillardia is published in the third volume of the Memoirs of 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



24. Agassiria suAVis, Gray & Engelm. The head of flowers is much 

 like that of a Gaillardia, but is raised on a naked stalk a foot or two in 

 height, the leaves being all near the ground, and the yellow and purple 

 rays are small. The principal attraction of the plant is its fragrance, which 

 is exactly that of the Heliotrope. The plant is a perennial, requiring to be 

 housed for the winter; but producing a succession of flowers in the open 

 ground throughout the summer. 



25. Amblyolepis setigera. D. C, is a Texan annual, also allied to 

 Gaillardia, with pale-green leaves, beset with scattered long hairs, and 

 showy, light-yellow flowers. It is well worthy of general cultivation as a 

 garden annual. 



26. Pentstemon Torreti, Benth. A native of New Mexico and the 

 Northwestern part of Texas, nearly related to the old Pentstemon barbatus 

 of the gardens, and probably only a geographical variety of it. It is a 

 taller and more branching plant, from four to six feet high, with long wand- 

 like panicles crowded with deeper-colored blossoms, which in some plants 

 are of the brightest scarlet red. This fine plant is now well established in 



ithe gardens, and is hardy, but precarious in this climate. 



27. Pentstemon Wightii and P. baccharifolius of Hooker are two 

 New Mexican species, of less beauty than the preceding, being rather few- 

 flowered, which were raised from seed gathered by Mr. Wight; but both. 



