STYLOPHORUM DIPHYLLUM. 



Aster and an Artichoke, of clear delicate blue (or white in the Albino). 

 Unfortunately it produces them far too late in the season for their 

 development ever to be successful ; so that the plant was useless for 

 English gardens until the Continent invented a form called S. c. 

 praecox, in which the fault was corrected, and the flowers produced 

 betimes in autumn. Seed, division, or root-cuttings. 



Streptolirion volubile is a now climbing Asiatic Commoliniad of 

 no special value, rambling for a j r ard or more, with little white flowers 

 among the long-stemmed and more or less heart-shaped leaves. 



Streptopus. — This family is almost pure Solomon's Seal, for the 

 same treatment and of the same sumptuous charm, but having wide 

 branches instead of the one arching stem. 8. amplexifolius is often 

 to be seen in the alpine woods, and has small white Solomon-Soal-bells 

 in early summer, often growing nearly 3 feet high, and brilliant with 

 red berries in the autumn. There are several other species, especially 

 in the mountain forests of America ; among which 8. roseus stands 

 out, by virtue of having bells of purplish-pink. It has a lesser habit 

 than the last, being only about 18 inches tall ; 8. longipes returns 

 towards the exaltation of S. amplexifolius; and the Japanese form 

 of 8. ajanensis has yellow stars. Division and seed. 



Stylophorum diphyllum (once called Meconopsis petiolata, 

 DC.) is a pretty Golden Poppy-wort, to be raised freely from seed and 

 planted in rich light soil in a rather shady place, or on the edge of 

 woodland, where it will make bushes of handsome smooth green leaves, 

 finger-lobed to the base in veiny divisions each like an oak-leaf. The 

 stems are a foot or 18 inches high, carrying throughout the summer 

 daintily-stemmed large golden Celandines springing only just clear of 

 the stalwart leafage, either solitary or several, from the summit of the 

 stalk. This is the Yellow Celandine Poppy of America, sometimes 

 offered under the false name of S. ohioense. There are two other 

 species from the Alps of China : of these 8. sutchuenense is very hand- 

 some, of much the same stature and configuration as the last, with the 

 same comely plump flowers of gold ; but the whole clump is clad in a 

 fur of long russet hair. The only remaining species, S. lasiocarpum, 

 belongs to Central China, where its bleeding root is valued as a drug, 

 and the plant is called Human-Blood- Wort. It has tho same height 

 as the rest, varying between 6 inches and 2 feet. But the flowers are 

 rather smaller, gathered in bundles of four or five, above the leafage, 

 which is of thin texture, feathered to the base on either side, and with 

 the end lobe largest. These all bloom in summer, and there is no other 

 Stylophorum, for 8. japonicum of catalogues is Hylomecon japonicum, 

 though precisely similar in prettiness and needs. 



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