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THE FLORIST. 
consisted of a very slender tube, J of an inch long, and a spreading 
five-lobed limb, the lobes obcordate, and deeply two-parted with diver¬ 
gent divisions. The spaces between the bases of the lobes, and between 
the notches, when seen against the dark background of the leaves, 
appeared to give a third colour to the flowers. It is a pretty dwarf 
plant for rockwork, and has succeeded well during the present moist 
cool season. The plants, however, sometimes die off unequally. 
(Enotliera bistorta Yeitchiana (Veitcli).—A showy yellow-flowered 
annual, dwarfish, but irregular in growth, the stems decumbent, rising 
at the points to a foot or more in height; the leaves lanceolate, attenuate 
at the point, wavy-margined ; the flowers solitary from the leaf axils, 
abundant, about 1 inch in diameter, four-petaled, forming a compact 
circular corolla of a bright yellow, with a small crimson spot at the base 
of each petal. The flowers were apparently stalked, the stalk-like part 
. being in reality the slender ovary an inch or more in length, which 
becomes a twisted capsule. The flowers were individually bright 
coloured and attractive, but the plant had rather a straggling appear¬ 
ance, and in the present season the demerit of dying off early and 
irregularly. 
Oenothera Drummondii nana (Vilmorin ; Truffaut; Carter & Co.). 
—The plants raised from seed sent under this name were diffuse- 
growing showy annuals, forming a mass of branches over a foot m 
height, the taller ones rising to a foot and a half; the lower leaves were 
downy, sinuately or somewhat lyrately pinnatifid, the upper ones very 
slightly toothed. The flowers were large, pale yellow, and showy. It 
was considered as a good bold-flowered dwarfish plant for the front 
parts of shrubbery borders. 
(Enotliera salicifolia. Syn,: E. biennis kirsutissima (Carter & Co.); 
E. versicolor (Of some).—A tall-growing plant with the habit of 
E. biennis. The leaves were long lanceolate, wavy, strongly-nerved ; 
the flowers small, dull reddish, or copper-coloured, having a faded 
appearance. It was of weedy unattractive character, the plants being 
coarse, and the flowers dingy. 
Papaver somniferum monstrosum (Van Houtte).—A curious rather 
than ornamental plant, of tall growth, like the common Opium Poppy, 
and with similar large dull purplish black-spotted flowers. The flower- 
heads were remarkable for producing a number of small ovaries around 
the base of the principal one, after the manner of the Hen and 
Chickens Daisy. 
Phacelia tanacetifolia (Vilmorin).—This had the habit of the 
well-known species itself, and bore dull grayish-white flowers. It was 
of weedy character. 
Portidaca. —Several varieties of this genus were grown, but all 
proved inferior to the old P. TJiellusonii and P. splendens, which were 
the only ones having rich and decided colours in their flowers. 
Pyreihrum Partheniitm eximiam. Syn : Matricaria eximia 
(Turner).—A fine late-flowering double quilled white Feverfew, cf free- 
compact habit, growing to 2 feet high, and forming a handsome 
border plant. The centre of the flower-heads was closely filled with 
tubular or quilled florets, and the flower-heads were very numerous, 
pure white, fijrming an attractive mass. 
