COSMAN'THUS FIMBRIA'TUS. 
FEINCtED cosmanthus. 
Class. 
pentandkia. 
Natural Order. 
HY DROPHYLLACE AE. 
Order. 
monogynia. 
Native of j Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
California. 18 inches. 
July. 
Annual. 
in 1847. 
No. 1202. 
It will be readily admitted that the name of this 
plant is not here improperly applied, having its deri- 
vation from the Greek kosmos, an ornament; and 
anthos, a flower. 
This delicate annual, closely allied to Nemophila, 
and Eutoca, is a late addition to our gardens ; and, 
although not one of a splendid class, it may be found 
useful where bolder subjects would be out of place. 
As the Rhododendron sometimes forms an under- 
growth in American forests ; or as the Juniper, Gorse, 
and humbler Bilberry, become the under-growth of 
our own woods ; so may the Cosmanthus or Nemo- 
phila, be employed as the carpeting for beds of 
standard Roses ; or to cover the circles of cultivated 
soil that is indispensable around single standards 
of the Rose, Cytisus, &c., when planted on turf. 
As the young seedlings of Cosmanthus are succu- 
lent and tender, a convenient mode of management 
is to sow the seeds thinly, in seed pans, in a hot-bed ; 
and when they are half an inch high, remove little 
patches of them, with the earth about their roots, 
into small pots, two or three weeks before being 
turned into the open ground. 
