FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
the tufts as broad. Leaves similar to those of G. Menziesii, smooth. 
Flowers 2 inches in diameter, rosy, in leafy many-flowered racemes; 
June to August. A native of Chili (introduced 1837). 
C. UMBELLATA (umbelled) is also a tufted form. Its stems (6 inches) 
are shrubby, and well-clothed with long slender leaves with fringed 
edges. The flowers are carmine with a tinge of violet, the yellow 
anthers showing conspicuously in the centre; they are associated in 
cymes at the extremity of the stems, several of them producing the 
appearance of an umbel. Flowers June to September. Introduced 
from Peru seventy years ago. Plate 44. 
Cultivation Of the species described, . some are annuals, others 
perennials, in their native country; but owing to the 
difficulty of keeping them through our winters it is customary to 
treat them as half-hardy annuals. An exception to this treatment may 
be made in the case of G. umbellata, which, though really a perennial, 
is generally grown as an annual, but may be treated as a biennial In 
some districts on a dry, well-drained soil it endures our winters; and 
where this hardiness is considered probable it will be wise to give it a 
trial as a perennial, or at least as a biennial. For this purpose the seed 
should be sown in a frame in May or June, and transplanted when 
sufficiently large. The other species which are to be treated as annuals 
do not often succeed when transplanted, and these should be sown 
where they are to flower. They require a light sandy soil and a sunny 
aspect; and in such a situation the seed should be sown thinly in May, 
the young plants being thinned out to allow for the prostrate growth 
in the case of certain of the species indicated. 
Description of C. umbellata is here shown of the natural size. 
Plate 44. The section of flower (Fig. 1) should be compared with 
the similar figure of PortvZaca grandiftora (Plate 43), as showing 
at a glance the principal differences between the genera. Fig. 2 
is the ripe seed-capsule, invested by the persistent sepals, and splitting 
into three valves to liberate the seeds. 
ST. JOHN’S WORTS 
Natural Order Hypericine^e. Genus Hypericum 
Hypericum (the old Greek name used by Dioscorides, but of obscure 
derivation). A genus comprising about one hundred and sixty species 
of herbs, shrubs, and small trees, popularly known as St. John’s Worts. 
