DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 115 
A. vernialis, is a hardy perennial border-flower, bloom- 
ing in May, of easy culture. The flowers are yellow, 
large and rather cup-shape; one foot high, 
AGERATUM. 
[A name employed by Dioscovides, and probably applied by him to some 
plants similar to what we call ‘‘everlasting.”) 
Agératum Mexicénum, is a handsome, half-hardy an- 
nual, with light-blue flowers, in compound corymbs, It 
continues to bloom through the summer; also’ through 
the winter, when kept in the green-house, and is desirable 
for bouquets. There is also one with white flowers, but it 
is not so free a bloomer, and one with variegated foliage. 
ALONSOA., 
(Named by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, after Zanoni Alonzo, at the 
time of the publication of that work, Spanish Secretary for the Kingdom of 
Santa Fe, and a great patron of Natural History.] 
Beautiful green-house plants with scarlet flowers, but 
bloom finely in the open ground, when treated like other 
tender annuals, 
A. incisifélia.—Nettle leaved Alonsoa.—It has nettle 
shaped foliage, but delicate and pretty; it flowers all the 
season. 
A. grandifléra has larger flowers. which are also scar- 
let; plants one to two feet high. 
