THALICTRUM. 



soil in the sun, waxing prodigiously in a noble sprayed pyramid of 

 clear green, above which goes soaring many a leafy stately stem of 

 3 or 4 feet, branching into fluff after fluff of white or creamy foam 

 far on into the summer. It seeds with such profusion and grows so 

 heartily that it ought to bo planted in wide drifts by every pool and 

 moist place, in the company of its old neighbours, Trollius, Paradisea 

 Liliastrum, Gentiana asclepiadea, and Campanula rhomboidalis. 



Th. Chelidonii is a type of some very beautiful species that want a 

 little extra care. They seem to require a light and specially stony soil 

 in a sunny place, loose and well-drained, not poor, but neither hard nor 

 heavy, with water flowing freely beneath in the early year. In such 

 conditions will Th. Chelidonii be happy, with tufts of fern-fine foliage 

 about 6 or 9 inches high, emitting a stiff loose spire of single flowers 

 unusually large for the race, being about an inch across, in lovely 

 contrast of the four ample sepals of delicate rose-lilac against the soft 

 citron fluff of the stamens. (It belongs to the high Alps of Kulu and 

 Sikkim.) 



Th. Cornuti—Th. dasycarpum, q.v. 



Th. dasycarpum (Th. Cornuti) lives in moist open places in the woods 

 of North America, where it grows a yard high, with flowers of yellow. 



Th. Delavayi has the habit of a very tall aspiring Th. minus, with 

 lovely fine foliage, wiry and bluish and bronzed, in spraying narrow 

 pyramids of 18 inches or so, tipped by short airy showers of cream-and- 

 lilac blossom in the way of S. Chelidonii, but hardly half the size. It 

 blooms far on into the summer, and should have the care of Th. 

 Chelidonii, hi a position especially sheltered and sunny. 



Th. dioicum is a North American for a cool place, attaining only 

 some 6 inches, with blossoms of whitish tone hi May. 



Th. dipterocarpum is the most magnificent of all in the Chelidonian 

 group, and to prosper as it wants, should have the stony soil and sub- 

 terranean moisture in warm places which this section prefers, and 

 on which this particular member insists. The plant is more than 

 twice the height of Th. Delavayi, and has absurdly little leafage for so 

 graceful and aspiring a stem of 4 or 5 feet, which branches towards the 

 top into several long spires and loose sprays of lovely ample flowers 

 in shades of rose-lilac, whose blunt clear softness of tone contrasts 

 perfectly with the beaten-cream-and-egg colouring of the stamens. 

 iChina.) 



Th. Fendleri is an American of some 2 feet high, with yellowish 

 sprays in July. 



Th. jlavum, Th. foetidum, and Th. glaucum belong to the ugly side 

 of the family, being, indeed, stately and stalwart with handsome fine 



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