PENTHORUM SEDOEIDES. 



one honourable exception at least. For P. Barrelieri has the courage 

 to grow almost wholly on its own root (more solid than that of most 

 others), and accordingly, if reverently transplanted , will thrive heartily 

 on a moist well-drained sunny slope of the garden, sending up tufts of 

 lush asplenioid green foliage, and 9-inch spikes of handsome clear 

 yellow blossoms. It is not a common species, but may abundantly 

 be seen on the Mont Cenis ; it is possible also that P. tuberosa may 

 have the same powers, as it is closely related, and has a similar 

 self-sufficient-looking root. But this is not so desirable, as the spike 

 is shorter and stumpier. 



Peganum Harmala has interest if no great show. It is a little 

 low wide bush of very finely-divided fine foliage, from the hot places 

 of the South, with stars of greenish white from May to July. It should 

 have a specially sunny corner on the rock-work, and be multiplied at 

 need by division. It was a sudorific in old days ; but the effect was 

 probably due to the rocks it inhabited rather than to any beauty of 

 the plant itself ; at least, nowadays, so far from causing the cultivator 

 to perspire, it leaves him wholly cold. 



Pelargonium Endlicherianum is hostile to tapeworms. But 

 it is not so hostile to our climate, and is, in fact, the sole member of its 

 vast and noble race that is faithfully hardy anywhere in Great Britain, 

 if planted securely in a sunny sheltered nook of the rock-garden, in 

 light and perfectly-drained calcareous soil. At least in nature it is 

 lime that it likes ; filling the crevices of the high limestone Alps in the 

 Cilician Taurus, making ample bushes of a foot high or more, thick 

 with stalked Geranium leaves, soft and scalloped and aromatic with 

 the best, and emitting in the later summer large clear rosy-carmine 

 flowers in loose clusters of four or five. 



Peltandra virginica, an Aroid of North America, growing 

 about 2 feet high or more, with handsome foliage, and green spathes 

 of blossom about 8 inches long in May and June. 



Peltaria alliacea in happier days used to be Sisymbrium 

 Alliaria, and under that title will be recognised as a tall white-flowered 

 Cruciferous weed from every hedgerow, with ample rounded toothed 

 leaves embracing the stem, and a vile stink of garlic proceeding from 

 every part of the plant with equal virulence. 



Pentachondra pumila is a pleasant small Ericaceous shrub of 

 a few inches from the mountains of the North Island of New Zealand, 

 up to 5000 feet, with flowers sitting lonely at the tips of the shoots 

 and followed by red berries. 



Penthorum sedoeides, a worthless Crassulaceous weed from 

 North America, producing wide heads of greenish-yellow bloom on 



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