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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOHIST. 
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foliaceous bodies, crisped and curled on the margins. The Jackanapes-on- 
Horseback is an exaggerated form of this latter, in which the bracts at the base 
of the umbel also become large and foliaceous. By the courtesy of the author 
we are enabled to add figures of some of these forms, with which we quote the 
explanatory remarks on the Pantaloons :— 
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“ This is a term applied by the old florists of two centuries ago to a form of 
the Hose-in-Hose, ^ having green leaves about their blossoms, which are some¬ 
times variegated with the same colours as the flowers they encompass.’ This in 
modern language signifies that the calyx is not an exact fac-simile of the corolla, 
as in the Hose-in-Hose, but is enlarged, so as to become funnel-shaped, and while 
partaking of the colour of the corolla, it is variegated with green stripes. They 
are sometimes called by country people JacJc-in~the-Box. Of these I have a great 
variety, ranging in colour from pale lemon-yellow to deep rich yellow, and from 
yellow stained with red, through all shades of red to dark maroon. 
“My original plants of the Pantaloon form I got from Mr. Webb, of Oalcot, 
near Beading, under the name of Garibaldi. This gentleman is well known as a 
great cultivator of the Polyanthus, the Primrose, and the Cowslip, and very kindly 
presented me with all the varieties of Pantaloon in his collection. These were 
yellow of various shades, brownish-red, and dark red. Since then I have, by 
careful crossing, succeeded in raising a great variety with much larger flowers, 
and embracing a great range of colour, from pale lemon to deep yellow, and from 
pale brick to the richest maroon. Last year I raised a very fine variety produced 
by a cross from one of the large-flowered Polyanthus, as the corolla is of unusually 
large size, and the calyx equally so. 
“ There is a curious variety of Pantaloon, raised by Mr. I. Anderson-Henry, 
which has large foliaceous bracts, the same as in old Parkinson’s Jackanapes-on- 
Horseback. 
“ A bed of Pantaloons is one of the gayest sights in the spring and early- 
summer flower-garden, and their fragrance is so powerful it may be scented at 
a distance. There is no doubt that the Pantaloons come originally from the 
Cowslip, for when the seed is sown, a considerable per-centage of the plants pro¬ 
duced are the common Cowslip, differing only in colour. I have, however, a fine 
form of the Pantaloon which is a large-flowered deep crimson Primrose, and is 
very gay in the flower-border in spring. This is met with in the cottage gardens 
of East Sussex and some parts of Kent, and as it is a luxuriant grower and free 
bloomer, it is pretty widely distributed.” 
PAKASITIC FUNGI ON SYCAMORE LEAVES, Etc. 
'INCE my paper on this subject (1873, p. 228) was written, I have observed 
that the young leaves of the Sycamore become more or less blotched with 
the Bhytisma acerinum., according to the quantity of old spotted ones which 
lie beneath the trees in winter; likewise, that the spots begin to appear 
about the middle of May, each of them consisting of several dark specks, which 
grow together and form the larger blotches. The Eev. M. J. Berkeley in his note 
observes “ that the black spots may still be found in quantities on the leaves in 
spring; the waved lines then open, and clouds of spores are given out from the 
leaves.” This is noteworthy, because it shows clearly how those parasitic fungi 
are propagated which affect the leaves of plants, and are erroneously called blights. 
