PERICOME CAUDATA. 



P. tubijlorus is another species not for admittance here. 



P. unihitcralis is almost (if not quite) a synonym of P. secundiflorus, 

 except that here the tube of the blossoms expands suddenly, instead 

 of gradually. But, for the rest, see P. secundiflorus. 



P. utahetisis is tall and strict and erect, attaining 40 inches or so, 

 with long-petioled, oblong-narrow leaves crowded at the base, and a 

 protracted spire of ample, specially baggy-belled, violet-blue flowers 

 nearly 2 inches in length. 



P. venustus has a stature of 2 feet, and a loose spire or pyramid of 

 large purple bells in June. 



P. virgaius is more modest, and only aims at about one and a half, 

 with blossoms in a proportionately diluted tone of lilac -lavender. 



P. Watsoni attains a foot or 15 mches, with weakly-ascending 

 stems that are smooth and blue-grey below, but sometimes rather 

 downy in the inflorescence. The stem-leaves are oblong-narrow and 

 pointed, leading up to a longish and contracted thyrse of flowers, 

 violet and white. The spray-stems are fine and slender, yet each 

 carries several blooms. No part of the plant is ever sticky, as in 

 P. humilis, nor are the stem leaves (or any of the leaves) diversified 

 with teeth. (Mountains of Colorado and Nevada.) 



P. Wrightii, it is suggested, blooms in June, with stems of 18 inches 

 and flowers of lilac-rose ; from which euphemism of kindliness the worst 

 may probably be augured. 



Pericdme caudata. — A little herbaceous bush a foot or two 

 high, from the Cordilleras of New Mexico, to be grown in a warm, 

 sunny corner, and multiplied by cuttings or by any seeds which it 

 may produce from the hay-scented, golden, Composite flowers that it 

 produces in August and September in thick and clustered heads, 

 which do not last long in the very hot exposures that are required 

 to assure the plant's complete hardiness. 



Pemettya, a race of Ericaceous neat bushes, quite hardy in 

 England, with evergreen foliage and abundance of large berries in 

 lovely shades of white, blue, violet, grey, pink and crimsons, which 

 make a fine effect, as the plants are tidy and small in growth. The 

 race occupies the Antarctic Islands, &c, where the wind blows them, 

 as it blows the little beeches and other temerarious growths of those in- 

 hospitable regions, into tight, flat masses on which one can walk as on 

 a p "<f. They are qo1 by any means lime-lovers, yet are not so calcifuge 

 as Rhododendrons, thriving comfortably in any clean loam. Cuttings. 



Petalostemon. — A family of graceful Pea-flowers from the 

 prairies, asking for lighl soil In a sunny position, where they will send 

 up many stems about a foot high, set with finely-divided foliage, and 



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