SUKEROKIA. 



Sukerokia. See Heloniopsis. 



Sullivantia Ohionis is a dim little whitish Saxifrage-cousin 

 from America, to be grown at need in a cool, shady, and quite moist 



place. 



Swertia. — This is a curious race in the allianco of Geutiana, but 

 wholly unlike. All its members are inhabitants of marshy meadows 

 over the alps of Europe, Asia, and North America, having their oval- 

 pointed leaves arranged in pairs, and sending up unbranched stems of 

 G inches or a foot, breaking, in summer, into a loose pyramid of erect 

 and wide-open large stars of blossom with ample pointed rays. The 

 best-known type is 8. perennis, the only species of our European Alps, 

 where it may rarely be seen here and there in boggy places and peat- 

 mosses of the open alpine pastures. It is also the only one to be at all 

 commonly cultivated in English bogs, being a lush-looking grower of 

 about a foot high, with flowers of a curious wet -slate-colour, freckled 

 with darkness. There are countless other species, few, if any, in 

 cultivation : from America might come among others S. palustris, 

 S. congesta, and S. scopulina — this last with four-pointed stars of dark 

 blue. And from the Levant, S. longifolia, S. Balansae, S. Aucheri 

 (yellow), and S. lactea with whitish-lilac flowers, four-rayed, on stems 

 of 6 inches. And, from the Himalaya, so many species, and so remote, 

 that they are hardly worth recording, seeing that the charm of the 

 family lies in its quaintness rather than in any brilliancy of tone, so 

 that there is little fear but that new species of merit will be at least 

 adequately described in catalogues that may some day offer them. 

 All may be raised from seed, with the delicacy and care attaching to 

 the seed-raising of almost all Gentians ; and when established, divided 

 at pleasure. See Appendix. 



Symphyandra. — This race suffers like Adenophora from coming 

 so very close beneath the t}-rannous shadow of Campanula, which obli- 

 terates all rivals, or, rather, forbids all approach. Yet Symphyandra 

 might well be thought of as Campanula, for in beauty the members of 

 this group (separated only from the other by minute botanical differ- 

 ences) are easily the peers of the best Campanulas. They are all 

 plants of the Caucasus and Levant, all quite easy to raise from seed, 

 all quite easy to grow in light open conditions of the rockwork, all of 

 the most well-bred and delicate loveliness, and all blooming in late 

 Bummer, when their beauty gams an added value that it hardly 

 needs. 



8. nrmena may bo pictured by a little diminishing the noble purple 

 bells of Campanula Raddeana ; it has the same graceful spraying 

 bteins of inches or a foot, here arching or flopping, and branching 



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