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THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
L. LUTEUS, Benth. 
Flowers yellow, with a deep orange-coloured centre. 
L. PARVIFLORUS, Benth. 
Flowers small, and of a pale yellow, with a darker centre. They are all low plants, flowering profusely the 
whole summer, or till killed by the heat and dryness ; and as they are all quite hardy, and resemble in habits 
the species already introduced, they would only require to be sown two or three times at different periods, to 
keep up a succession of flowers nearly all the year. 
GENUS III. 
COLLOMIA, Nutt. THE COLLOMIA. 
Lin. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube slender ; segments of the limb oblong, entire. Stamens 
inserted towards the middle of the tube. Cells of capsule 1-2-seeded.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c.— The word Collomia is derived from Collo, glue ; in reference to the seeds being enveloped 
in a kind of gluey, sticking substance. The plants are all annuals, with small flowers, disposed in dense heads, 
and with very large bracteas. All the species have an untidy weedy appearance, and are scarcely worth cultivation. 
1.—COLLOMIA HETEROPHYLLA, Hook. 
Synonyme. —Gilia heterophylla, Doug. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 2895 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1347. 
Specific Character. —Plant prostrate, branched, clothed with 
THE VARIOUS-LEAVED COLLOMIA. 
glandular down. Lower leaves pinnatifid and cut. Upper ones cuneated, 
pinnatifid. Bracteas or involucral leaves oblong, acute, quite entire. 
—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —The flowers are small, long in the tube, of a dingy purplish colour; and very few together 
in each head. The stem is much branched, the leaves are small, and of different shapes ; and like all the species 
of the genus, the whole plant has an untidy and weedy appearance. It was found by A. Menzies, Esq. and 
afterwards by Dr. Scouler, near Fort Vancouver on the Columbia; but Douglas in 1826 discovered that it was a 
common plant on the hills of North America, growing in partially shaded places, and continuing in flower all the 
summer. It is one of the many Californian plants of which specimens were brought to England by Mr. Menzies 
in 1792, though the plants were not introduced till so many years afterwards. The plant is of the easiest culture, 
as it will grow in any soil or situation, and may be sown at any season when the ground is not hard with frost. 
2.—COLLOMIA COCCINEA, Lehm. THE SCARLET COLLOMIA. 
Synonymes. —C. lateritia, D. Don. ; C. cavanillesii, Hook et Am.; 
Phlox linearis, Cav. ; Phlox biflora, Ruiz et Pavon. 
Engravings.- —Bot. Reg. 1622 ; Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 206 ; 
Bot. Mag. t. 3468. 
Specific Character. —Plant erect, branched, beset with glandular 
down. Leaves lanceolate-linear. Upper ones ovate-lanceolate, quite 
entire, or deeply 2-4-toothed at the apex. Calyx semi 5-cleft, with 
broad-lanceolate, obtuse segments. Corolla more than twice longer 
than the calyx. Cells of the capsule 1-seeded.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —This is unquestionably the handsomest species of the genus; and it is in fact the only 
one worth growing as a garden flower. Even this, however, does not look well unless sown in masses; and it 
should only be grown where there is abundance of space, and variety is necessary. The flowers are of a bright 
