ON SOME ORNAMENTALS 



flask-shaped flowers, with the sepals slightly 

 opened by the curling outward of their tips. The 

 sepals are thick and fleshy, although not leathery, 

 giving the flower almost the appearance of a fruit. 



This species is almost invariable, about the 

 only diversity noticeable being a slight variation in 

 the size of the flowers. 



To the pistils of several specimens of coccinea 

 was applied the pollen of various other species; 

 among these being C. crispa, known as "Blue 

 Bells", C. Davidiana, C. Fremonti, C. lig us tici folia, 

 C. Bouglasi, C. verticillaris, C. occidentalis, C. For- 

 tunei, C. Viticella, and others, no attempt being 

 made to keep the various crosses separate. 



The hybrid progeny showed a great amount of 

 variation, especially as regards color of the flow- 

 ers. There were blue, crimson, scarlet, and white 

 flowers, and sometimes all of these colors appeared 

 in a single blossom. 



There was also much variation within certain 

 limits in the form and texture of the flowers, which 

 in general were of a larger size than those of the 

 seed parent, and more spreading and widely open 

 in form. Some had thick sepals and some had 

 thin ones. 



Perhaps the most striking peculiarity was that 

 the interior of the sepals often had a frosted ap- 

 pearance, due to the presence of a filament net- 



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