PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Paronychia has 45 species in eastern and south- 
ern Europe, western tropical Africa,' and in warm 
and temperate America. They are mostly herbs of 
but little merit ornamentally, but the Algerians 
make a sort of beer from one ol them. 
Herniaria has 8 or 10 species ir> Europe, West- 
ern Asia and north and south Africa. Some have 
been used in carpet bedding. 
Celosia is more ornamental and a highly appre- 
ciated genus ot 35 species found in the tropics of 
Asia, America and Africa. The “Cockscomb” 
and other types are familiar ten- 
der annuals, and some are excel- 
CECOSIA CRIST.\TA. CHAMISSOA PYRAMIDACIS. 
lent autumn flowering pot plants. One or two 
shrubby forms are in the tropics. 
Amarantus has 50 species widely dispersed in 
tropical and warm regions. They are mostly an- 
nuals, some, both of the foliage and flowering var- 
ieties very showy, while others are vile weeds. In 
India two or three are used as pot herbs, and their 
seeds as corn which is parched like pop-corn. A. 
caudatus seems to be one of these, at any rate I 
have received seeds of it among others but not in 
the variety of color I desired. A. bicolor, A. 
melancholicus, vars. and A. salicifolius are fine foli- 
age plants, needing hot bed help north. 
Achyranthes has 12 species in tropical and warm 
regions. The plants under the name in green- 
houses are often Iresines. 
'Telanthcra “altenanthera” has 50 species in the 
sub-tropical and tropical parts of America and Af- 
rica. They are well-known carpet bedding plants 
which botanists tell us have now found their right- 
ful title. Some of the best colored forms are best 
propagated during the last weeks of summer. 
Altena^ithera proper has 20 species distributed 
over the warm parts of the world, with a species or 
two near the Mexican border. 
Goniphrena “globe- amaranth” has 70 species. 
Some South American species are shrubby, but the 
annual, E. Indian G. globosa in variety is the most 
grown. 
Iresine has 25 species from the sub-tropical and 
tropical parts of America. Some of those with 
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highly colored red and yellow foliage are useful 
plants for massing in beds. They have a wild rep- 
resentation in a few species along the Rio Grande. 
Hablitzia has i or 2 species from the Caucassus 
and Asia minor. H. tamnoides is an herbaceous 
climber of no particular value except for that 
fact. 
Beta “beet” is in 13 species of mostly maritime 
plants from western and southern Europe and 
northern Africa. Wheni gardeners desire a cheaj) 
highly colored foliage bed the “Chilian” beets may 
be commended. They are varieties of B. cicla 
supposed to have developed their variegated qual- 
ity in Chilian gardens. 
Atriplex has 20 species of shrubs and annuals in 
temperate and warm regions. H. halimus is a Tar- 
GOMPHRENA 
GI.OP.OSA, 
tarian shrub in a 
few varieties. A. 
canescens and a 
few others on the 
Mexican bound- 
ary are mealy 
shrubs. Some of 
the annual forms 
have highly colored foliage, but are not very dur- 
able. The “greasewood,” sarcobatus, is a shrub 
but rarely taken into gardens. 
Rivinia is probably a monotypic but variable 
plant from tropical America grown for its berries. 
James MacPherson. 
amaranths siliciforius. 
An Expressive Epitaph. 
Cyclists occasionally discover quaint and in- 
teresting items that never meet the eye of the or- 
dinary tourist, who makes few divergencies from 
the beaten track. 
A party of Midland wheelmen lately visited the 
churchyard of the village of Enville. On one of 
the tombstones they discovered the following epi- 
taph 
‘‘He was 
But words are wanting to say what; 
Think what a husband should be — 
he was that ! 
Of all the epitaphs I have ever seen, read or 
heard of, I think this must be awarded the palm 
for expressive originality. — Exchange. 
