. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 246 Composite—Cosmidiuin. 3-lobed leaves and Zinnia-like scarlet flowers produced in Autumn. And Hmyaliumn, rigiilum is anotlier allied plant, a native of North America, and quite hardy. It rises about a yard high, and is furnished with opposite oval leaves and yellow flower-heads about half the size of the Sunflower, but much more numerous and of longe
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 246 Composite—Cosmidiuin. 3-lobed leaves and Zinnia-like scarlet flowers produced in Autumn. And Hmyaliumn, rigiilum is anotlier allied plant, a native of North America, and quite hardy. It rises about a yard high, and is furnished with opposite oval leaves and yellow flower-heads about half the size of the Sunflower, but much more numerous and of longer duration. 20. COSMIDIUM. A small group of annuals of close affinity witli Coreopsis; but the achenes are long and narrow, and covered with minute tubercles, and closely embraced by the bracteoles of the recep- tacle, which fall away with them. The pappus consists of two short stout bristles. Natives of North America. 1. G. Burridgeanum. — About 18 inches high. Leaves finely cut. Capitules on long naked slender peduncles, about 2 inches in diameter. Ray-florets about eight. In the original variety the disk is purjjle, and the ray bright orange with a purple spot at the base of each floret; but under cultivation it has varied. One of the prettiest variations, called atropurpu7'euni, has the heads of a crimson-purple bordered with oi-ange. C. fillfolmni lias the rays entirely yellow with a brown disk ; and G. Eng- ehiidnaii is a dwarf species with wholly yellow flowers. 21. C(JSirOS {06smea). Annuals or perennials with pinnate leaves and solitary flower-heads. Re- ceptacle furnished with linear acute coloured bracteoles, equalling or ex- ceeding the florets. Achenes angular, largest in the middle, crowned with three or four rigid bristles. Koa-fxo^ signifies beautiful or perfect. Fig. 134. Cosmos bipinnatus. 1- G. blpinnatus (fig. 134).—An () elegant annual about 2 feet high. Flowers rose or purple with a yellow eye, appearing late in Summer. Please note
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