DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 123 
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AMMOBIUM. 
(From the Greek, meaning to live upon sand.] 
Ammébium alatum.— Winged Ammobium.—A pretty, 
half-hardy New Holland annual, with dry, white, involu- 
eral scales, like a Gnaphalium. The flowers, wheft gath- 
ered before they fully mature, retain their shape and 
brightness, and are fit companions for Helichrysums, 
Amaranths, and other everlasting flowers for winter orna- 
ments. .Height, two feet. The stems have a curious 
winged attachment their whole length. 
AMSONTIA. 
{Named after a traveller, Mr. Charles Amson.] 
Amsénia Tabernemontina.— Broad-leaved Amsonia, 
and has been called A. latifolia, but the name here given 
is the oldest. A hardy perennial, about two feet high, 
with leaves somewhat like those of the peach and pale- 
blue flowers in terminal clusters. 
A. salicifélia.—Willow-leaved Amsonia, has narrower 
leaves. Both are easily cultivated native plants, which 
succeed in almost any soil, and flowers in June. 
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ANAGALLIS,—PivrerneE.. 
. [From the Greek, to laugh ; the name expressing the medicinal qualities of 
the plant; which, by removing obstructions from the liver, removed a cause 
of low spirits and despondency. So at least say Pliny and others.] 
Anagillis arvénsis.—Pimpernel, or Poor man’s weather 
glass, one of the Flore horologice, opening its flowers 
regularly about eight minutes past eight o’clock in the 
latitude of England, and closing about three minutes past 
two o’clock. It also serves as an hygrometer, for, if rain 
fall, or there be much moisture in the atmospere, the flow- 
