Plate 41. 
INCURVED-ELOWERED EVERLASTINGS. 
Helichrysum hracteatum incurvum. 
The yellow and white-flowered New Holland Annual Ever¬ 
lastings, called by botanists Helichrysum hracteatum, have long 
been garden favourites,—a position subsequently shared by an 
allied plant called H. macranthum , from the Swan River, having 
white rosy-tipped flower-heads, the latter being evidently a 
mere variety of the former, somewhat larger and differently co¬ 
loured. This plant however introduced the element of change, 
and its flower-heads being found to vary in colour, in size, and 
in the form and proportion of their parts, the best forms have 
been selected by growers, until at length have been obtained 
the beautiful objects represented in the accompanying Plate, 
which was prepared last summer from plants growing in the 
garden of the Royal Horticultural Society, to which they had 
been contributed by various seedsmen under the following 
names:— H. macranthum nanum, H. macranthum compositum 
maximum, II. compositum maximum, H. compactum maximum, 
and II. hracteatum nanum ferrugineum. 
The plants, like the common Everlastings, are tall-growing 
annuals, moderately branched but very little spreading, the 
branches being short and erectish; they are clothed with 
elongate or oblong-lanceolate wavy roughish leaves, which at 
the base are slightly decurrent on the stem. The flower-heads 
are terminal on the branches, a few smaller heads branching 
Plate 41.—TIelicheysum eeacteatum, var. iin t cueyum : habit and foliage 
that of the species ; flower-heads large ; involncral scales very numerous, the 
inner ones (several series) smaller and narrower than in the species, incurving 
over the disk. 
H. beacteatum, var. incueyum, Moore , Proceed. Poy. PEort. Soc. i. 314. 
IT. maceanthum compositum maximum, of gardens. 
