HELE'NIUM UNDULA'TUM. 
WAVED-LEAVED HELENIUM. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. SUPEUFLUA. 
Natural Order. 
composite;. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
California. 
3 feet. 
Aug-. Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1830. 
No. 600. 
Our present generic term is the representative of 
the Greek elexion of Dioscoricles. Professor Mar- 
tyn mentions it as from Helen, the wife of Menelaus, 
who, as Hesychius says, cultivated a plant that 
destroyed serpents : according to other fabulists, 
this plant sprung from her tears. 
As we cannot find any description of the present 
plant, w^e have called the species undulatum. It 
most probably was raised from imported seeds, a 
few years ago, but we have no clue to its history. 
It is a handsome showy plant for giving variety to 
the flower borders in the latter part of summer, and 
will grow in any common soil. Yellow flowering 
plants of the natural order Compositae show them- 
selves rather abundantly towards the end of sum- 
mer; there is, however, ample space for one that 
is so distinct in its general appearance as the He- 
lenium undulatum. 
It isprobable that under favourable circumstances 
this plant will perfect its seeds, but this we have not 
hitherto observed to be the case. It may be di- 
vided at the roots if increase be required, and suc- 
ceeds in any situation. 
