PASCALEA GLAUCA. 



for is P. pinnaHfida from Afghanistan, which offers precisely the look 

 and habit of Morisia monanthos, hut that here the single flowers are 

 red upon tin- line ground-hugging rosette. 



Pascalea glauca is a Eree-flowering Chilian Composite for a 

 light and sunny place, with broad slightly toothed bluish foliage 

 and tall two-foot branching stems of golden blossom in later 

 summer. 



Passerina dioica and P. nivalis are a brace of microscopic 

 and dowdy Daphnes from South Europe. Their heads of flower are 

 quite negligible, and their only value is as minute evergreens that 

 ramp quite llat and tight across the face of a sunny rock, and clothe 

 it with small neat tufts of little Daphnoid foliage, suggesting fraudulent 

 imitations of D. petraea. 



Patrinia.— These may briefly be described as yellow Valerians, 

 by which their worth and the value of the fuss that has attended at 

 lea st one of them into cultivation may be gauged. This one is P. rupes- 

 tris, a pretty enough thing for a corner of a rock, with stems of 

 6 inches or a foot carrying relaxed Valerian heads of golden-yellow 

 flowers in late summer — their season of bloom enhancing their 

 value, which is quite sufficient to win it admission for the plant, 

 though by no means enough to justify the price at which it rates 

 that admission, seeing that it may rapidly be multiplied by division 

 at your pleasure. Others of dwarfish habit are P. sibirica and 

 P. viUosa ; and taller species, almost always with yellowish or 

 bright-yellow flowers, are P. intermedia, P. palmata, P. sedbiosaefolia, 

 and P. gibbosa, all being too precisely Valerian-like in tall seem 

 and loose habit to be fitted in the garden for any place more 

 choice than the wilder parts where Paradisea is growing among 

 the Astrantias and Campanula rhomboitlalis. This they will greatly 

 help with their golden show in the duller days of August, when 

 they would admirably suit with the bending sapphire swathes of 

 (■'( nl in na nsclepiadea. 



Pedicularis. — Although the Louse-worts make a special show of 

 beauty on the alpine pastures, with their brilliant coloured parrot 's- 

 beak flowers, and their ferny fine tufts of foliage, yet there is a look 

 aboul them of softness and unwholcsomeness that prepares one for 

 tlic d< \vs that they are almost all parasites, and impossible to grow 

 unless by seed sown in tussocks taken from the mountains, on the 

 chance of their pel host being present. Also their ephemeral air of 

 effectiveness makes them seem rather like vicious fungoid emanations 

 that will Boon collapse into rottenness and disappear In half an hour ; 

 BO thai one is doubly consoled for their impossibility. There is, however, 



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