164 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



■which has been introduced into England, the 

 blood everlasting, (GnaphaUiim sanguineiim,) is 

 generally gathered by those who, when tread- 

 ing the Mount of Olives, wish to carry thence 

 some record of a visit to so sacred a spot ; and 

 the durable nature of the chafty petals of the 

 lowly floweret, render it a very suitable one. 

 Few flowers, indeed, preserve their beauty like 

 this, when brought from a warmer climate ; and 

 to these blossoms the description of the poet is 

 applicable — 



" They look as infants do, who smile when dead." 



A species of cudweed grows in great profu- 

 sion on the steppes of Tahtary, and the Cos- 

 sacks drink an infusion of its yellow floAvers as 

 a cure for the jaundice. 



The brilliant everlasting flowers, which, as 

 they have no English name, we must call by 

 their botanic one of helicJwysum, are so named 

 from two Greek words signifying sun and gold. 

 They are chiefly natives of Africa, especially 

 of the southern parts of that continent. The 

 handsomest, as well as the hardiest kind, is 

 the waved-leaved species, {Helichrysmn hracte- 

 atum,) which grows wild in New Holland. 

 This has yellow flowers. Some species are 

 white, and one beautiful kind has its flowers 

 tipped with pink, and is brought from the 

 colony of the Swan River. Backhouse writes 

 thus of one species, which he saw at Cape 

 colony : " In the course of the day I walked to 

 the top of a hill, on which the lidichrijsum 

 proliferum, a beautiful crimson everlasting, 



