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Fig. i8. — Lespedeza bicolor. — See page 112. 



plain, on which Flora had assembled her most beautiful eye was looking upon this charming- carpet of flowers it 



children, where the charm of flowers had culminated. The was especially attracted by the interesting and beautiful 



whole plain was covered with the dark blue U. Humboldtii, Heliamphora nutans, with light green red-ribbed leaves 



the most beautiful species of the genus, with red-tinted and bearing slender drooping spikes of white and some- 



flovver-stalks from three to four feethigh, from which three or times red tinged flowers." 



four of the curious flowers are suspended. While the amazed Messrs. Veitch & Sons imported plants and seeds of the 



