Cuitivation.— NV. integrifolia is grown as an annual 
and thrives quite as well as the elegant Love-in-a-Mist (WV. 
damascena) or the Spanish Fennel-flower (NV. hispanica) 
under the treatment .suitable for these species. The seeds 
are sown under glass in early spring, and the young plants 
are transferred to the open border in May. 
Desoription.—Herb, annual, slender, very sparingly 
puberulous; wild plants erect, little branched, rarely over 
1 ft. high; cultivated examples more slender, weaker, 
somewhat spreading, much branched, 13-2 ft. long. Leaves 
at base linear-spathulate, entire, 4 in. long or longer; lowest 
stem-leaves entire, linear, acute, the rest subsessile, 3-9- 
palmatipartite, lobes very narrow, very acute, usually 1}— 
2 in. long, the uppermost involucrate round the solitary 
flowers. Flowers blue, campanulate, 3-1 in. long. Sepals 
usually 5, petaloid, oblong, closely applied by their margins, 
tips rounded, slightly recurved. Petals or nectaries usually 
8, linear, bifid half-way, obscurely ciliate, nectariferous at 
the base within. Stamens about 20. Carpels usually 3, 
about 2 in. long, connate above the middle, shortly beaked ; — 
beaks hardened, spreading. Seeds trigonously compressed, 
rugose, 3-ribbed behind, whitish. .. 
Fig. 1, an upper-leaf; 2, a petal ; 3, stamens; 4, pistil:—all enlarged. 
