This fine species constantly rising in value by the pro- 
duction of fresh varieties of the richest and brightest 
colours, is becoming one of the most general ornaments 
of our flower-gardens in autumn, It is raised from seed 
with the freedom of an annual, and the varieties are multi- 
plied and perpetuated with the certainty and extensiveness 
of a perennial. Only two species are yet known to us, 
-and these separated by marks, both wavering and indis- 
tinct. Frustranea is however, as far as we have observed, 
a slenderer plant than the present, with a narrower foliage, 
smaller flower, and a stem with a more conspicuous coating 
of the whitish hoar-like effloresence, terined bloom in 
fruit. Both species grow to the height of seven or eight 
feet, with stems in proportion, and are leafy and branched 
throughout. The filaments of the stamens are elastic, and 
by extension admit of the anther being protruded above the 
floret by the impulse of the stigmas from within; as, charged 
with pollen, they advance to their station through its 
$-valved membrane which opposes their outlet at the sumr 
mit ; withdrawing the same to its place when these have 
passed. ~ 
A tender out-doors plant, requiring a deep bed of rich 
mould for its cultivation; and that the roots should be 
taken up and preserved from frost and wet during the win- 
ter, ina shelter where they can be coyered with dry sand 
or ashes. When the roots are divided, in order to multiply 
the plant, care should be taken to remove a portion of the 
rootstock, containing at least one eye or bud in the de- 
tached part. ; 
Native of Mexico. Introduced by the way of Spain in 
1789, by the late Lady Bute. 
The drawing of the present showy variety, lately received 
from Paris, was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and 
‘Kennedy, Hammersmith. Pe 
a 
‘a The outer and inner calyxes without florets. 4 The lower section of 4 
.»floret of the ray, showing the tube and germen detached from each other, 
‘c A floret of the disk, with the chaff or bracte attached to the germen, 
- showing the anther, as protruded by the style from within, before a passage 
is yielded to the stigmas through the valves of its summit. d The samé 
»after the stigmas have emerged from within the anther, and this has been 
withdrawn within the floret by the contraction of the elastic filaments. 
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