The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . ved, darkbloudy). dark blood-purple, ample, on very longpeduncles ; ray florets elliptic, three-toothed at apex ; peduncleslift. long. September. I. long-petiolate, pinnate, the lower ones8in. to 9in. long ; pinnre five to seven, the lower ones 2in. to //. 3ft. Mexico, 1835. Hardy perennial. (B. M. 5227.)C. hybridus (hybrid), white or pale rose-coloured, diameter, disposed in large, terminal corymbs. I. finely
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . ved, darkbloudy). dark blood-purple, ample, on very longpeduncles ; ray florets elliptic, three-toothed at apex ; peduncleslift. long. September. I. long-petiolate, pinnate, the lower ones8in. to 9in. long ; pinnre five to seven, the lower ones 2in. to //. 3ft. Mexico, 1835. Hardy perennial. (B. M. 5227.)C. hybridus (hybrid), white or pale rose-coloured, diameter, disposed in large, terminal corymbs. I. finely 6ft. to 7ft. Mexico, 1888. A very attractive annual. 262 The Dictionary of Gardening, Cosmos—continued,C. spectabUlS (showy). A garden hybrid. 1892. (R. H. 1892, p. 372, f. 114-15 and Plate.)C. sulphurous (sulphur-coloured). snlphur-yellow; outer involucral scales appressed, shorter and narrower than the inner ones. September and October. /. bipiiinatipartite ; lobes lanceolate, mucronate, somewhat scabrous on the margins; petioles ciliated. Stems pilose, k. 2ft. Mexico, 1799. Hardy perennial. SyN. Coreopsis Fifi. 278. Cosmos BiPiNNAxrs alliixoiu .- COSSUS LIGNIFERBA. See Goat-Moth. COSTUS. Stns. Birnlsfin, Giffnnfhe, Helleniii, Jnrn-nnga, Planera (of Giseke). All the species of this genusare tropical ; they are fotmd in America, Africa, Asia, andAustralia. To those described on p. 387, Vol. I., the follow-ing should be added. P. nlbeacens, P. cinereus, and P. ,introduced in 1868, are apparently only garden varieties. C. cylindricus (cylindrical). /. yellow, lin. long, the lobesoblunp:; spike cylindrical, 4in. to 6in. long; bracts scarlet, verynumerous. I. spathulate - elliptic, acute, glaucous beneath,yellowish-ciliated, h. bit. or more. Trinidad. A variety fromMartinique has blue flowers and purple bracts. C. discolor (parti-coloured). ;?., calyx and stamens purple ; corollalobes white, lanceolate; lip white, yellowish in the middle,large,
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