AMARAKTH FAMILY 



are gathered before quite mature, and dried in the shade, they 

 become everlasting flowers. 



The garden race produces, in addition to the primitive purple, 

 white, golden-yellow, brownish-yellow, and pink flowers. 



Gomphrena globosa var. nt.na is a 

 dwarf, not half the height of the type, 

 but forming a little bush with dark-red 

 flower-heads. 



Two other species are in cultivation 

 and appear both in type and as hybrid: 

 Gomphrena perennis, a perennial from 

 South America; and Gomphrena pulch- 

 ella, from Brazil. 



The Globe Amaranth is also known 

 as Bachelor's Button, though two other 

 entirely distinct plants, Centaurea cyanus 

 and Ranunculus acris, have the same 

 popular name. 



CELOSIA. COCKSCOMB 



CeUsia cristhta. 



Celosia, Greek, dried or burnt; refer- 

 ring to the dry, scarious bracts. 



Globe Amaranth. Gomphrhui 

 glohbsa 



Leaves. — Alternate, usually long-petioled. 

 Flowers. — Borne in crowded spikes, each 

 minute blossom with its shining, brilliant bracts. In cultivation these 

 spikes are often changed into crests corrugated and frilled at the edge 

 like a cock's comb. 

 Calyx. — Five spreading segments, subtended by three bracts. 

 Stamens. — Five, united at their base to form a cup. 

 Fruit. — Utricle, the upper part falling o£F as a lid. 



The Celosia is one of the old plants in cultivation, the earliest 

 English record of it standing, "from Asia, 1570." The primitive 

 form was characterized by erect, pyramidal, plumy panicles. 

 The garden form which appears in the illustration is a monstros- 



