A Chapter on Everlastmg or Imtnortal Flowers. 



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H. nanum (Dwarf Immortals). — This class grows to about a foot high, 

 the flowers not so large as the others, but the colors are more brilliant. 



HELiCMRYSUM MACRANTHUM. — I and 2, white ; 3, pink ; t, and s, maroon, with gold centre. 



H. nanum atrosangnineum has dark purplish-crimson flowers, and If. nanum 

 coccvvieum approaching to scarlet. There are also white and yellow varie- 

 ties and intermediate shades. 



