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those of the wild species, which it very closely resembles in 
other particulars. 
2. A. Monélli.—A perennial species with deep blue flowers, 
about 6 lines in diameter in the common variety. But there 
are varieties with larger scarlet, maroon or lilac flowers, sup- 
posed to be the result of hybridized seed between this and 
A. fruticosa, a handsome species with large vermilion flowers, 
from North Africa. Bréweri, Phillipsi, Parksii, and Phaeni- 
cea are some of these varieties. They are usually treated as 
annuals. 
Hottonia palistris, Featherfoil or Water Violet, is the only 
other plant of this order we have to mention. It is a native, 
but by no means common, growing in ponds and sluggish brooks. 
Leaves submerged, whorled, deeply divided into numerous 
thread-like segments, Flowers white, pink or lilac, whorled 
in terminal racemes. 
Orper LXXXVIL—GLOBULARIEA. 
Herbs or small shrubs with tufted radical and alternate 
entire exstipulate glabrous cauline leaves, and involucrate 
capitules of flowers. Calyx persistent, 5-lobed, lobes quincun- 
cial in bud. Corolla 5-lobed; lobes narrow, usually unequal. 
Stamens 4, inserted in the tube of the corolla, and alternate 
with its lobes, the fifth between the two upper lobes being de- 
ficient. Fruit a dry 1-celled 1-seeded indehiscent achene. 
This order is limited to one genus of few species, inhabiting the 
Mediterranean region. 
1. GLOBULARIA. 
Characters the same as those of the order. The name is from 
the Latin globulus, a little ball, in allusion to the arrangement 
of the flowers. None of the erect woody species are quite hardy 
in this country. 
1. G. vulgaris.—A tufted perennial about 6 inches high 
with spathulate emarginate or shortly tridentate radical leaves 
and numerous stems clothed with small lanceolate leaves, and 
terminated by a solitary head of deep blue flowers. A native 
of the mountains of Europe, flowering in Summer. 
2. G. cordifolia.—This is a trailing shrubby species with 
petiolate obovate-cuneate obtuse emarginate or tridentate 
