PTERIDOPHYLLUM RACEMOSUM. 



close to the head), but much weaker and more sickly in growth, with 

 its flowers in grudged pairs, on the top of long and spindly stems of 

 3 or 4 inches. In the garden it is utterly wiped out by P. kichanensis 

 and P. Umbrella, q.v., being a puny little thing like a tense and wizen 

 P. farinosa, with just a pair of flowers on stilts above a starveling 

 tuft. 



P. yuparensis is a most beautiful new Japanese, in habit like 

 P. farinosa, but with very much larger long-tubed blossoms in the 

 way of P. longiflora, borne erect, by twos or threes on a dainty scape 

 of 3 to 4 inches. 



P. zambalensis clamours to the collector from the far Alps of Batang, 

 where it replaces its close kinsman P. yargongensis. 



Priva laevis, an 18-inch half-hardy Verbena of no merit. 



Prosartes Hookeri=Bisporon Kookeri, q.v. 



Prunella. See Brunella. 



Psendopyxis depressa is an attractive small woodland species 

 of Japan, suggesting that the blooms of Trientalis have strayed on to 

 an Enchanter's Nightshade. 



P silos temon orientalis has also been called Nordmannia 

 cordifolia, Trachystemon orientalis, and Borrago orientalis. This last 

 name gives the picture ; it is a thing for the wildest places only, among 

 scrub or on rough outlying slopes where it may freely spread. In 

 the spring come up 18-inch loose spikes of very starry hanging Borrage- 

 flowers in blue and pink, which are followed in later April by the 

 unfolding of taller, rank heart -shaped leaves, wrinkled and rough as 

 is the fashion of the race. 



Psoralea, a race of almost shrubby Pea-flowers, with blossoms 

 in spikes. Their place is on dry warm slopes in arid soil. They have 

 no special charm, but P. subacaulis is quite dwarf, with egg-shaped 

 heads of blue blossom in April ; still dwarfer is P. acaulis, -which wears 

 purple flowers ; P. macrostachys is a yard high, with spikes of violet- 

 blue in late summer ; P. bituminosa has the same season, but half 

 the stature, with flowers of dark violet ; and P. formosa (now ana- 

 grammed into Perosela) is a branching small bush with minute 

 leaves, and few flowered spikes of large and brilliantly purple flowers. 

 Seed. 



Pteridophyllum racemosum is a curious and pleasant little 

 Japanese Poppywort, which from its fleshy stock unfolds in spring 

 a tuft of dark-green fleshy leaves just like those of the Hard-fern, 

 except that they are not hard ; then in the midst rises in July a 

 stem of 6 inches or a foot (or more), unfolding a spike, most airy and 

 graceful, of tiny white flowers, which, though Poppies, look much more 



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