A good hardy species with broadly campanulate rosy-purple flowers, spotted with yellow.

M. LENNEI.This is a garden hybrid between M. conspicua and M. obovata discolor, and has flowers as large as a goose's egg, of a rosy-purple colour, and produced profusely.

PURPLE HORN POPPY.An annual flower of singular beauty, and deserving a place in the flower garden.

So the girls made their basket, and the floor of it they covered with the rich olive-purple leaflets.

There were reds of all shades, from a veritable scarlet to a red umber; greens, from sea-green to emerald; several kinds of blue, and an indeterminate purple-mauve.

The bluey-purple pall had given place to a beautiful orange-tinted yellow such as I had never seen before.

The clouds were torn into golden-purple rents, and the air was so clear that one could look down the Narrows far out to the open sea.

I visualise with effort; I am peculiarly inapt to see "after-images," "phosphenes," "light-dust," and other phenomena due to weak sight or sensitiveness; and, again, before I thought of carefully trying, I should have emphatically declared that my field of view in the dark was essentially of a uniform black, subject to an occasional light-purple cloudiness and other small variations.

The rose-purple zone along the base of the range comprehends nearly all the famous gold region of California.

It has reticulated, cordate-ovate, serrated leaves, with small greenish flowers on slender stalks, and succeeded by blackish-purple fruit about the size of a pea.