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and indistinct in colour to be effective, and very much inferior in this 
respect to multicolor, which is a handsome plant. 
Cosmidinm Barridgeanum, (Turner.)—A very handsome Coreop¬ 
sis-like plant, growing about 2 feet high, of branched habit, the leaves 
pinnatisected, with long filiform or subulate leaflets. The flowers were 
on long stalks, deep orange-yellow, with a broad dark maroon-crimson 
spot at the base of the florets, which were truncately obovate, much 
broader than in the well-known Calliopsis bicolor. The flower buds 
were 8 -furrowed, not smooth as in Calliopsis. 
Delphinium consolida tricolor elegans. (Carter & Co.)—A tall form 
of branching Larkspur, producing single and double flowers of richly 
varied colours, many of them elegantly striped. These latter, which 
were very handsome, were of various shades of rosy-pink, striped with 
blue. Others were of a rich purple. 
Dianthus atrorubens. (Carter & Co.)—A very handsome and 
brilliant mule Pink, having dark stems, with broad leaves at the base, 
and terminating in an open branched head of flowers ; the flowers nearly 
1 inch in diameter, produced continuously through the summer, single, 
vivid glowing crimson of slightly varying shades. It was a bright- 
coloured and beautiful border flower. 
Dianthus chinensis Heddewigii. (Carter & Co.)—A beautiful form 
of Indian Pink, of dwarf sturdy habit, with very large flowers, richly 
varied in colour: crimson and rose in various shades, and variously 
mottled in darker and lighter tints, being predominant. The best 
formed and most richly-coloured flowers are exceedingly beautiful 
additions to the flower-garden, and these only should be perpetuated, 
the many inferior ones being discarded. They are charming plants, 
both for the garden and for pot-culture, for the greenhouse and con¬ 
servatory. 
Dianthus chinensis laciniatus. (Carter & Co.)—This, though per¬ 
haps not permanently distinct from Heddewigii, differed more or less 
obviousl}’’ in being of taller and more slender habit, with the flowers 
more deeply jaggefl at the edge : it was also more varied in colour; in 
some of the varieties the flowers were very well formed, while in 
others they were narrow and 'loose. It was, however, inferior to 
Heddewigii, on account of its loose habit, and narrower-petaled flowers. 
■n’ jt 7 - ■ ■ . 7 . ("Carter & Co.7 A very handsome 
Dianthus chinensis imperialis. ^ m r r r c 
^Turner. 3 . ordinary form of 
Indian Pink; the flowers moderately large, mostly double, and beauti¬ 
fully variegated, the colours being chiefly rose and rosy-purple, with 
darker markings. 
Dianthus hybridus corymbosus. (Van Houtte.)—A broad-leaved 
mule Pink, not very attractive in colour, the flowers being single, and 
for the most part of a dullish purple or rosy-purple colour. 
Dianthus hybridus Laxtoni. (Carter & Co.)—A mule Pink, of 
mixed character, and, like the last, not very attractive, compared with 
others of similar habit. 
Erysimum arkansanum. (Carter & Co.) Syn: E. asperum. 
(Thompson.)—A vigorous and showy species, growing 2 feet high and 
upwards, sparingly branched, the Inanches erect, with sinuately toothed 
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