Referring to Acroclinium in our last, it was noted that in a composite or aster-like flower, there were many method's by which the flower became, in popular language, "double." We give here a case where another of the " immortelles " has become double, but in this case by the tubular florets in the center, taking on a broadly ovate form, as in some dahlias. Besides the instructive lesson it affords, it is a highly ornamental plant, and is pronounced by Haage & Schmidt, the Erfurt seedsmen, as the best of all the Xeranthemums."

Xeranthemum annuum superbissimum.