ACROCLINIUM

(from akros, top, and kline, a bed; referring to the open flowers). O RD. Compos itæ. A small genus of elegant half hardy annuals with "everlasting" flower heads, which are solitary, terminal, and consist of tubular florets; involucrum many-leaved, imbricated. Leaves numerous, linear, smooth, acuminated. Stems numerous, erect. They thrive best in a loamy soil, and constitute very neat summer flowering annuals if sown out of doors in patches in June; they are also useful as winter decorative greenhouse plants if seed is sown in August in pots placed in a cold frame. The flower-heads should be gathered when young, if it is desired to preserve them. IMG:7081556231692414330_i_018.jpg: F IG . 21. A CROCLINIUM ROSEUM , showing Habit and Flower-head.