Acroclinium
(from akros, top, and kline, a bed; referring to the open flowers). ORD. Compositae. 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. A. roseum (rosy).* fl.-heads pretty rose, solitary, terminal, on erect, slender, and gracefully disposed branches. l. linear, acute. h. 1ft. to 2ft. S. W. Australia, 1854.
A r. album (rosy white).* A very pretty white form of the preceding. A. r. grandiflorum (large-flowered).* fl.-heads rose, larger than in the type.