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single patches, they should have several sticks placed 
around, and a string fastened, so as to keep the flower- 
stalks tolerably erect; by this attention a neat and hand- 
some effect will be given. JI adopt the use of cross- 
strings, as well as a circular one, by which means I have 
the shoots regularly disposed. . crocea, Saffron-colored 
California Poppy, of a dark, bright saffron-color; and # 
alba, White California Poppy, with white flowers, . are 
only varieties of £. Californica, and require the same 
treatment. 
E. tenuifélia, is a species with very slender grass-like - 
leaves; color of the flowers, pale whitish-yellow. All 
are easily propagated by seeds, and where the plants 
have scattered their seed upon the ground, a plentiful 
supply of young plants may be found in the following 
spring; they should be thinned out one foot apart. It is 
useless to attempt to transplant them, as it is very diffi- 
cult to make them live. 
The name of this genus has been altered to Chryseis, 
in disregard of the established custom among botanists. 
Although it is a more elegant word than Eschscholizia, 
yet that being the older name, must have the preference. 
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EUPATORIUM. 
(Name from Eupator, King of Pontus, who first used it in medicine.} 
Eupatérium purpireum.—Purple Thoroughwort, Joe- 
Pye Weed.—Purple flowers, in August; perennial; four 
to six feet high; indigenous; leaves in fours and fives. 
This plant cannot be said to be elegant, yet it is not des- 
titute of beauty, and will be a valuable acquisition to the 
shrubbery. Its tall stem terminates in large corymbs of 
small shining purple flowers. 
E. perfoliatum.—Bone-set or Thoroughwort.—Is a plant 
