478 Report on some remarkable Hardy Ornamental Plants, fyc. 



situation ; they bear the sun remarkably well, and will live through 

 a mild winter : but in that case they become unsightly ; it is better 

 to renew them every year from seeds. 



Gilia tricolor. (Plate 18. fig. 3.) 



G. tricolor. Benth. in Bot. Beg. I c. 



This is perhaps the handsomest of the new Polemonideae received 

 from California, both from the general appearance of the plant and 

 the abundance and brilliancy of colour of the flowers. It grows to 

 the height of about a foot, with an erect stem and foliage much 

 resembling that of the G. capitata, but the flowers are very much 

 longer, and instead of being collected in globose heads widely 

 spread at the end of long peduncles, they are few in number in 

 each head, but the peduncles being much shorter and very 

 numerous, they form a large and rather dense panicle in which the 

 deep orange of the centre of the colour and the light blue or white 

 of the margin, separated by a circle of deep purple, show off to 

 great advantage. It will probably be quite as easy of growth as the 

 G. capitata. 



Two other new species of the same tribe of Polemonideae, from 

 amongst those described under the above quoted number in the 

 Botanical Register, have been raised in the garden. The one, 

 Gilia achilleaefolia, figured in the Botanical Register, v. 20, t. 1682, 

 only differs from G. capitata in some botanical characters and by a 

 darker shade of the flowers. The other, G. pharnaceoides, (belong- 

 ing to the section or rather genus Dactylophyllum) did not prove 

 much worth cultivation. But amongst those sent in a dried state 

 there are many that it would be highly desirable to obtain for our 

 gardens. Should any collector again visit that rich country, I would 

 particularly point out all the genus Hugelia, the Leptosiphon 

 grandiflorus, Fenzlia dianthiflora, Gilia liniflora, and G. tenuiflora. 



