from two to three feet high, the branches more or less freely pro¬ 
duced, some of the plants being ramified abundantly; and they 
were furnished with alternate elliptic lance-shaped leaves, in 
some cases narrower and more elongated than those shown in 
our figure, and having an uneven or repand margin. The 
dilated inflorescence terminated both the main stem and the 
branches, smaller spikelets again issuing from the axils of the 
leaves growing upon the latter. The inflorescence was spa¬ 
ringly furnished with perfect seed-bearing dowers towards the 
base, and was generally narrow and elongated in form, lobed or 
branched, and more or less dilated at the apex into the Cock’s- 
comb form. The colour was a bright reddish-rose or rosy- 
crimson, in some plants having a more empurpled, in others a 
more orange-tinted hue. 
. The form represented in our illustration is one of those 
having the dilated form of dower-head. It is not improbable, 
however, that the more branched of the spicate forms, if care¬ 
fully selected, might in time yield a plumy crimson variety, ana¬ 
logous to the golden one we already possess; and this is the 
result at which growers should aim, rather than to obtain large 
expanded combs, which would take away from the elegant as¬ 
pect of the plant. 
The culture of this Cock’s-comb will be exactly that of the 
golden-plumed variety, already adverted to. As a long-en¬ 
during, autumnal-blooming decorative plant, it is equally with 
that deserving of cultivation. 
