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THE FLORIST. 
character, some of the specimens being intermediate between it and the 
old type form of species. It grew foot high, and in general habit 
and foliage resembled the common sort; the flowers were also of the 
same rosy-purple colour, but the petals were flabeilate, forming a seg¬ 
ment of a circle, without indentations on the outer margin, and clawed 
at the base. The immediate plants had the petals slightly indented. 
If the entire-petaled character can be rendered permanent, this will be 
a very desirable flower. 
Clarkia pulckella marginata. (Turner.)—In this variety the petals 
were deeply three-lobed, as in the parent; rosy-purple at the base. 
the lobes more or less deeply tipped with white. The plants proved to 
be individually pretty when in their best condition, but sportive, and 
ineffective in a mass. On the whole, the variety was considered to be 
too dull and indistinct for general cultivation, though when well marked 
interesting as a fancy flower. 
Clarkia pulckella pulcherrima. 
)son 
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This was considered 
as a very much 
improved form of the species, the flowers being large and of a deep 
bright crimson-tinted rose colour, quite distinct from the purplish tint 
of the common sort. The plant was similar, both in habit and foliage, 
to the older form, but on account of its larger flowers and brighter 
colour was much more rich and effective, and had a very flne appear¬ 
ance in a mass. 
Collinsia bartsicefoUa alba. (Parker & Co.)—This was determined 
to be a useful plant as a very dwarf-growing white annual, but the 
flowers were not quite pure in colour. The plants were not more than 
6 to 8 inches high, with minutely glandular pubescent stems, branched 
from the base; the leaves ovate oblong, sessile, crenately toothed; the 
flowers numerous, white, slightly tinged with blush. 
Collinsia bicolor alba. 
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dhis was decidedly inferior 
to C. bicolor candidissima. 
C Parker & Co. 
^ Carter & Co 
The plants were 15 inches high, with loosely branched stems, smooth 
below and pubescent above; the leaves ovate-lanceolate, crenately 
toothed, the flowers large, greenish-white. The plants were taller and 
looser than those of candidissima, and the flowers much less pure in 
colour. 
Collinsia bicolor atrorubens. (CarterCo.)—This, which is said 
to be a deeper-coloured variety of C. bicolor, did not prove at all dif- 
. ferent in colour from well-grown samples of the species, with which it 
was compared. 
n IT ■ 1 - 1 1 -j- ■ CParker & Co.7 A first-class white 
Loilmsia bicolor candidissima. < rp > ] c \ 
^iurner. } annual, oi showy 
character and good habit. The stems were 1 foot high, sparingly 
pubescent, compactly branched from the base; the leaves ovate-lance¬ 
olate or oblong-lanceolate, obscurely toothed ; the flowers of large size, 
j)ure white. The plants were dwarfer ani more compact than in 
C. bicolor alba, and the flowers of a much purer white. 
Collinsia multicolor marmorala. (Turner.) Syn ; C. bicolor mar- 
morata nova. (Carter & Co.)—A pale variety of C. multicolor, which 
is itself perhaps only a form of C. bicolor. The variety was too dull 
