The sun had just dipped into the ragged peaks of the Costejo range and a reddish-purple crown lay on the crest of Sentinel Mountain forty miles to the southeast.

This member of the Pea family is of dwarf, branching growth, thickly clothed with glandular hairs, and bears yellow flowers, succeeded by reddish-purple pods.

This is a distinct species, with curled leaves, and large reddish-purple flowers.

In this species, which may rank next to the latter in point of hardihood, the flowers are of a deep reddish-purple, and with a darker blotch at the base of each petal.

The flowers vary a good deal in colour, but in the typical plant they are reddish-purple and produced throughout the summer.

The double-flowered form, D. crenata flore-pleno, is one of the prettiest flowering shrubs in cultivation, the wealth of double flowers, not white as in the species, but tinged with reddish-purple being highly attractive.

In this species, also a native of Britain, the flowers are of a reddish-purple colour, and borne in dense terminal racemes.

It has large, bright yellow flowers, with a deep reddish-purple blotch at the base of each petal.

The leaves are trifoliolate, small, and neat, and the abundant racemes of individually small, Pea-shaped flowers are of the richest and showiest reddish-purple.

P. chamaebuxus purpureus differs in bearing rich reddish-purple flowers, and is one of the most showy and beautiful of rock plants.

It is of dwarf habit, with dark reddish-purple flowers.

The wide sweep of grassy common beyond the sands in Embleton Bay is, in summer time, covered with a profusion of wild flowers, chief amongst them being the wild geranium, or meadow cranes-bill, whose reddish-purple blossoms grow in such abundance as to arrest the attention of every visitor.

RACEMOSUM (Starch Hyacinth).Rich dark-blue or reddish-purple flowers.