CATANANCHE CiERU'LEA. 
Variety : bicolor. 
TWO-COLOURED CATANANCHE. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. POLY GAM 1 A jEQUALIS. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Hybrid 
S. Europe. 
2§ feet. 
July, Sept. 
Perennial. 
origin. 
No. 424. 
The word, Catananche, is compounded from the 
Greek language, to imply compulsion, or powerful 
impulse ; in allusion to an imaginary quality for- 
merly attributed to it. The specific name, Cseru- 
lea, signifying blue, was given to the original plant, 
which we have published under No. 15; from seeds 
of which the present variety originated, in the gar- 
den of Mr. Smith, nurseryman of Worcester. Its 
colour renders its name somewhat paradoxical. 
Innumerable seedlings have been raised from this 
novel variety, but their flowers invariably depart 
from the colour of their immediate parent, and fol- 
low that of their original progenitor, the blue va- 
riety. The consequences of such circumstance may 
not be important, but the fact is, surely, worthy of a 
moment’s reflection from rational beings. We see 
the apparent incident, and ask ourselves if it be 
mere casualty. Who can reply? or who will tell 
us how it has been effected ? None need proceed 
further to be satisfied of his own ignorance, and to 
induce reliance on that power which alike guides 
even the tint of a flower and the destinies of man 
and of the universe. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 469. 
