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THE FLORIST. 
leaves, and fine bright smooth-petaled yellow fragrant flowers, as large 
as those of the common Wallflower. The flowers at first formed a closed 
head, but the inflorescence afterwards became elongated. It was con¬ 
sidered as a first-class bright yellow annual. 
Fenzlia dianthiflora. (Carter & Co.)—A beautiful little dwarf 
annual, not more than 2 or 3 inches high, forming a small compact 
tuft, with narrow leaves, and handsome light rose-coloured Gilia-like 
flowers, paler towards the centre, with a dark spot in the throat, the 
segments of the limb evenly toothed at the ends. 
Gaillardia, new dwarf scarlet. (Van Houtte.)—Not distinguish¬ 
able from the ordinary form of G. picta. 
Gypsophila rnuralis. (Carter & Co.)—A dwarf and very slender, 
much branched, divaricately diffuse plant, forming a mass about 1 foot 
in diameter, with long linear leaves, and small blush or pale pinkish 
flowers. It is a neat plant for rock-work, pretty, but ineffective as a 
mass. 
Helianihus annuus calfornicus. (Thompson.)—A large-flowered 
deep golden-yellow double Sunflower. 
Helichrpsum bracteatum incurvurn. Syn: H. bracteatum nanum 
ferrugineum (Turner) ; H. compactum maximum (Turner) ; H. com- 
positum maximum (Carter & Co.) ; H. macranthum compositum 
maximum (Thompson); H. macranthum nanum (Turner).—This 
plant (of which the older forms, bearing the scientific name of Helichry- 
sum bracteatum, are the yellow and white Everlastings, long known as 
popular annuals), has, by admixture with H. macranthum—another 
exotic form, undeserving of specific distinction, having rosy-tipped 
flowers—given rise to a beautiful race, which is distinguished by the 
large size of the flower-heads, and the more numerous as well as smaller 
coloured involucral scales which compose them, and which are grace¬ 
fully incurved so as to cover the disk. This incurving gives them a 
much richer effect than is seen in the older kinds, where the scales are 
larger, and spread out so as to expose the disk wholly to view. The 
species, in its various forms, is to be recommended 'for its property of 
blooming late in the year, unaffected by the earlier frosts of autumn. 
The forms here collected were improved variations of the old H. brac¬ 
teatum, with larger and more varied-coloured flowers; some of the 
plants acquiring also a dwarfer habit, but none being apparently of 
fixed character, either as to habit or colour. The plants grew 3 feet 
high, branched, with lanceolate leaves, and large flower-heads upwards 
of 2 inches in diameter; the coloured involucral scales surrounding them 
were very numerous, ranging in several series, smaller than in the 
common forms, the innermost ones incurving neatly over the disk, and 
they were various in colour, including yellow, sulphur, white, pink, 
crimson, and copper-colour in various shades. The plant seems to have 
a sportive tendency with respect to colour. 
ITelicJirgsum bracteatum nanum. 
f Thompson.") The flowers in this 
3 variety resembled 
IT urner. 
those of the ordinary form of the species, but the plants had a tendency 
to assume a dwarfer habit, being from 15 to 18 inches in height, but 
not very uniform in this particular. 
