132 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
habits than the common Columbine, the leaves are more 
finely divided; it-is about one foot high, producing its 
beautiful flowers in June. The flowers are large and rich 
sky-blue; the inside and margin of the corolla pure 
white. It is one of the most desirable of the genus, 
propagated from seeds, or dividing the roots soon after 
flowering and not in the spring. This splendid species 
is lost to me and I cannot obtain it from Europe; the 
seed which has been sent me for this, has proved to be 
something else. Many of the Siberian plants are pro- 
tected by the deep snows of that climate, and our open 
winters are fatal to many plants from that region, and I 
suppose I lost my bed of this elegant flower on account 
of its being halfhardy. It should have been kept in a 
frame through the winter. 
A. alpina, is a very handsome species with rich, deep 
blue flowers; which, instead of drooping as in other 
species, has its flowers erect. 
A. Skinnérii, raised from imported seed, it has large 
red flowers; the spurs are of deep green color, singular 
and beautiful, this also is lost in my collection. Ido not 
know its origin. A. dicolor, is a beautiful hybrid. Most of 
the species and varieties are at home in any good garden 
soil. 
ARCTOTIS. 
cNamed from Greek words, signifying bear, and capsule, because its fruit is 
shaggy, like a bear.] 
Arctotis breviscapa, a new annual. I do not know the 
origin of this plant, but received it, with other seeds, 
from Paris. The flowers are composite, like the Calen- 
dula officinalis, or Pot Marigold, and have some resem- 
blance to that flower, but the foliage is quite different. The 
