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macedonica are magnificent herbaceous plants, broad and 
narrow-leaved forms of one type, probably, like enormous 
common sulphur and orange ‘loadflaxes, with glaucous 
leaves and a sturdy upstanding habit, that make bushes 
four feet high or so, and flower all through the summer, and 
thrive in any decent position as heartily as any one could 
desire. Linaria Cymbalaria is our own dear little creep- 
ing Toadflax of the walls, which is charming for any 
neglected corner, as well as its bigger, more brilliant 
pallida form. As for Linaria hepaticaefolia, I have an 
uncertain plant which came to me as Linaria ovata, but 
which is declared to be the true hepaticaefolia—a creeper, 
with round, white-veined leaves, and large whitish lilac 
flowers, admirable for a rough, shady corner, like every 
creeping Toadflax. But one must be very careful with 
all of them; for, if you give them an inch, and they like 
it, they will certainly go on to take an ell; only the 
most valueless wastes should be allotted them; and 
I already foresee that I shall have trouble with my 
hepaticaefolia, which is beginning to run up a choice cliff 
at whose dank base it was planted in certainty that it 
would be out of all harm’s way. Linaria Cymbalaria 
maxima, and Linaria Pancici—this last a novelty and well- 
spoken of—are yet but seedlings that will flower this 
season. As for Mazus rugosus, that also is a seedling, but 
looks so flourishing and flowered so prettily last year, with 
little Toadflaxy blossoms, that I am in high hope he may 
prove more satisfactorily winter-hard than the older and 
better-known Mazus Pumilio. And another pretty little 
plant of the Fig-worts, Coris monspeliensis, a Provencal, 
with six-inch spikes or so of small purple and gold Howers: 
this, like the southerly Antirrhinums, blooms long and 
late, loves dry heat, and is not safely hardy here, except 
on a high-drained corner of the rocks in light soil. 
Foxgloves and Mulleins are hardly rock-plants, except 
