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diameter, red and 3^ellow. This varietj^ has more red in its flowers 

 than any other of the tall Heleniums. 



34. atitumnale ' Taplow Red' (Barr). — Height ij to 2 feet. An 

 extremely floriferous variety. Flowers if inch in diameter ; disc 

 deeply coloured ; ray florets yellow, more or less heavily streaked 

 and splashed with chestnut-red. Very close to Helenium autumnale 

 cupreum. 



35. Hoopesii (Barr) .—Failed to flower. 



Helianthus. The disc of the flower flat or slightly domed. 



2. decapetalus (Barr). — Height 5} feet ; habit erect and branching, 

 the plant forming a dense bush in the shape of an inverted cone ; 

 flowers profusely borne on short peduncles, 2J inches in diameter ; 

 disc J inch in diameter, dull orange-yellow ; ray florets in one whorl, 

 pale lemon-yellow. 



9. decapetalus nanus (Barr). — Height 24 inches ; compact of 

 habit ; stem dark ; leaves lanceolate, serrate, 4 inches long ; flowers 

 freely borne, i J inch in diameter ; ray florets in a single whorl, lemon- 

 yellow. 



10. giganfeus (Barr). — Height 8 feet; leaves Hnear lanceolate, 

 somewhat scattered ; flowers borne on long, red peduncles, 2J inches 

 in diameter ; disc J inch, orange-yellow ; ray florets in one whorl, 

 lemon-yellow. 



12. ' H. G. Moon ' (Barr), A.M. September 25, 1900. — Height 

 3j feet ; habit compact, dense ; flowers held on long, pale-coloured 

 stalks 4 inches in diameter ; disc | inch, dark brownish-purple ; ray 

 florets, deep yellow, somewhat incurved. 



6. muUiflorus. — Height 2-2 1 feet ; habit erect, forming a dense 

 bush ; leaves cordate, rather large (to 5| inches long) ; flowers borne 

 on short stalks, hardly raised above the fohage, 3J inches in diameter ; 

 disc I inch, brownish ; ray florets in one whorl, broad, lemon-chrome ; 

 involucre bracts fohaceous. 



20. muUiflorus 'Bouquet d'Or ' (Barr). 

 19. muUiflorus ' litoile d'Or ' (Barr). 



21. muUiflorus ' La Perle ' (Barr). 



These three varieties of Helianthus muUiflorus follow the type 

 (No. 6) in all characters except that the disc florets are highly developed 

 towards the periphery, becoming deeply 3-toothed, forming a large 

 hemispherical disc, somewhat deeper in tone than the single whorl 

 of ray florets. As one-year plants at Wisle}/, these three varieties 

 showed but httle difference except that ' Etoile d'Or ' was of a some- 

 what lighter tone than ' Bouquet d'Or ' or ' La Perle.' 



I. muUiflorus ' H. B. Pollard ' (Pollard). — This variety is said to 

 be a sport from H. muUiflorus ' Soleil d'Or ' (No. 15). It resembles 

 that variety in all respects except that the florets are much less quilled, 

 and are, in fact, almost flat. 



7. muUiflorus maximus (Barr). — A variety of H. muUiflorus (No. 6). 

 It grew larger than the type and was more free-flowering. The plants 



