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those of the wild species, which it very closely resembles in 

 other particulars. 



2. A. Monelli. A perennial species with deep blue flowers, 

 about 6 lines in diameter in the common variety. But there 

 are varieties with larger scarlet, maroon or lilac flowers, sup- 

 posed to be the result of hybridized seed between this and 

 A. fruticdsa, a handsome species with large vermilion flowers, 

 from North Africa. Breweri, Phillipsi, Pdrlcsii, and Phosni- 

 cea are some of these varieties. They are usually treated as 

 annuals. 



Hottonia palustris, Featherfoil or Water Violet, is the only 

 other plant of this order we have to mention. It is a native, 

 but by no means common, growing in ponds and sluggish brooks. 

 Leaves submerged, whorled, deeply divided into numerous 

 thread-like segments. Flowers white, pink or lilac, whorled 

 in terminal racemes. 



ORDER LXXXVII. GLOBULARIE^]. 



Herbs or small shrubs with tufted radical and alternate 

 entire exstipulate glabrous cauline leaves, and involucrate 

 capitules of flowers. Calyx persistent, 5-1 obed, lobes quincun- 

 cial in bud. Corolla 5-lobed ; lobes narrow, usually unequal. 

 Stamens 4, inserted in the tube of the corolla, and alternate 

 with its lobes, the fifth between the two upper lobes being de- 

 ficient. Fruit a dry 1-celled 1-seeded indehiscent achene. 

 This order is limited to one genus of few species, inhabiting the 

 Mediterranean region. 



1. GLOBULAEIA. 



Characters the same as those of the order. The name is from 

 the Latin globulus, a little ball, in allusion to the arrangement 

 of the flowers. None of the erect woody species are quite hardy 

 in this country. 



1. G. vulgaris. A tufted perennial about 6 inches high 

 with spathulate emarginate or shortly tridentate radical leaves 

 and numerous stems clothed with small lanceolate leaves, and 

 terminated by a solitary head of deep blue flowers. A native 

 of the mountains of Europe, flowering in Summer. 



2. G. cordifolia. This is a trailing shrubby species with 

 petiolate obovate-cuneate obtuse emarginate or tridentate 



