13S 



POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



they are annuals, from Asia, with very curious red flowers 

 growing in crested heads, often of large size, which make a 

 great show amongst other plants. These heads are com- 

 pound!} 7 waved and folded, and the whole is beset with con- 

 glomerated flowers with minute bracts ; the size of this 

 curious head is increased by culture, and shifting from small 

 to larger pots as they increase in size ; the crest is some- 

 times made to be of the enormous size of " twenty inches in 

 length and eight or ten across." The seeds should be sown 

 in March, and placed in a hotbed ; when old enough, they 

 should be potted singly in small pots, and thence moved to 

 larger ; in May they may be removed to the greenhouse to 

 flower. 



Subclass III. PEPIGYNOUS EXOGENS. 



Stamens growing to the side of either calyx or corolla. Ovary 

 superior or nearly so. Flowers having stamens and pistils in the 

 same or different flowers. 



MESEMBRYACEM 



Exogens, with numerous conspicuous petals, forming showy 

 flowers, which open only under the influence of the sun. Divi- 

 sions of calyx usually five. Petals numerous, in many rows. Sta- 



