ONOSMA. 



small stems ol - or '•'> inches, displaying ultimately flowers of tawny 

 yellow. 



iure, attaining 18 inches, with 

 unbranch i ascendent stalks clothed in smooth, blunt, half 



stem-embracing foliage, about an inch and a half long, and set with 

 smooth tubercles 01 wartlete. The flowers are yellow. (From 

 Northern Syria, Arnanus,. & 



0. coeruleum is all rough with short grey hairs, and the stems rise 

 to some 5 or 10 inches, unfolding showers of blue and white in the cliffs 

 of Antilibanus. 



0. dasytrichum has few-flowered close heads of violet blossom, on 

 silky-Laired erect shoots from a woody stock. (Alps of Southern 

 b.) 

 0. decipiens, Schott and Ky. = 0. nanum, q.v. 



0. echioeides ranges from Europe to the Levant, and may always 

 be known from all forms of 0. tauricum by the very specially short 

 footstalks of the flowers that do not, as in the others, after flowering 

 ly equal the calyx in length. It is the 0. stettulatum genuinum 

 of Boissier. In other words, it is not at all far from 0. tauricum 

 in garden needs and value. It also has varieties 0. e. brachyeoJyx 

 and 0. e. brachyphyttum. 



0. erectum is a small-growing sub-species of 0. stettulatum, from 

 the sea-rocks of Crete, up to 5000 feet on Cretan Ida. It is most 

 neat and attractive, with bugles of a more golden-orange than in 

 0. tauricum, which, it must be remembered, ranked originally as a mere 

 narrow-leaved variety of the very polymorphic 0. stettulatum ; so 

 that 0. stettulatum still serves as the standard of comparison for 

 0. tauricum and all its kindred. 



O.flavum has the full serene beauty of 0. sericeum, silver coat and 

 all, but sometimes the plant is clothed in russet down instead, and 

 always the seed-nuts are smooth. 



0. ji - 0. echioeides of the Flora Qraeca. It is specially 



branching, half shrubby at the base, and rough and downy with close- 

 oblong, paddle-shaped, and the bending 

 stems spring up in abundance, and on their 6-inch branches bear the 

 beautiful big heads of big flowers that range from yellow to pink 

 and violet. This gloriou - the rocks of Attica and all 



:.d so down to Palestine, on Herman and Carmel. 

 0. fruHcosum is found some 2000 feet up in Crete. It has long 

 . that vary from white to yellow, some 

 . re to the mound oi 

 itophUum may just] I to love salt. For it inhabits 



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