The Golden Bartonia was introduced into England, from California, in the year 1835, by the botanist Douglas. Mr. D. introduced many beautiful flowers as the result of his botanical tour in California, and this is one of the most beautiful of them all. This excellent botanist was killed a few years after, by falling into a pit made to entrap wild cattle, in the Sandwich Islands. He introduced into England more ornamental annuals than any other collector. "It is only beneath the bright sunshine," Dr. Lindley observes, "that its splendid flowers unfold. In the early morning the plant is a shabby bush, with pale greenish-grey branches, and weedy leaves; but as the sun exercises his influence, the petals gradually unroll, as if in acknowledgment of his power, till every branch is radiant with gold: and so metallic is the lustre of the inside of its petals, that one would really think they must be composed of something more solid and enduring than the delicate and perishable tissue of a flower".

The seed should be sown in a sheltered situation, (as the branches are very brittle, and easily broken by the wind,) in a rich, moist soil.

Very fine yellow, cup-shaped flower, a foot high -