TRIENTALIS EUROPAEA. 



passed by, in the clamper places of the turf in the Maritime Alps, &c. 

 It is like an inferior Eyebright ; no less impossible to cultivate, and 

 far more dowdy. 



Trachystemon orientale=Psilostemon orientale, q.v. 



Trautvetteria palmata is a rather dim Japanese Ranunculad 

 of the woodland, growing 2 feet or a yard high, with handsome ample 

 foliage, hand-shaped, with toothed ample fingers. The stems of 

 blossom come up in summer and break in radiating bunches of fluffy 

 whitish flowers, the whole plant rather, suggesting a Thalictrum with 

 the foliage of a Cimicifuga. Any good rich soil in a cool place will 

 suit it, and the clump can easily be divided in spring. 



Trichopetalum gracile=Bottionaea thysantoeides, q.v. 



Tricyrtis. — These strange plants have all the same resemblance, 

 differing chiefly in their stature, so that one picture may suffice to 

 express their almost inexpressible quaintness. From a short stock 

 they send up more or less arching stems of a foot or two, embraced 

 by dark hairy leaves, corrugated and oval-pointed, which from their 

 axils almost all the way up emit large and evil flowers, very late in 

 summer as a rule, or autumn, built on the scheme of a lily, but wried 

 by perversity into an almost Aubrey-Beardsley freakishness of outline 

 and heavy waxen texture and livid sombre colour of putrid pinks, 

 freckled and spotted with dark purple till their name of Toad-lily is 

 felt to be apt. They like the treatment of Trillium, and with the 

 Trilliums should be planted and there left undisturbed for ever, in a 

 rather warm corner, however, that their flowers may develop betimes, 

 for often they are nipped in the bud by autumn. T. hirta (T. japonica) 

 is the best known ; but a better plant is T. macropoda, if only that it 

 blooms earlier, in June and July, in rather closer sprays. Much 

 smaller and quite dainty and charming in its sinister way is T. 

 Hototogisu. Pronounce this " hototongeese," and think of it accord- 

 ingly as meaning the nightingale of Japanese woodlands, a frail 6-inch 

 stem or so, set rarely with heart-shaped leaves, and bearing several 

 flowers only, in a loose spray, notable and noble for the delicate 

 build of the plant. 



Trientalis europaea is a very dainty little Woodlander, which 

 may with care be grown in light rich vegetable soil in a cool and shady 

 corner of the garden, and may with a good deal more difficulty be 

 happed on in the alpine glens of England and Scotland, where its 

 delicate stem, set with a Herb-Paris-like whorl of some half a dozen 

 soft oval-pointed leaves of bright green, make a charming effect, even 

 if it were not for the exquisite pearl-pale Chickweed blooms that 

 continue to hover over it through the summer on the finest of thready 



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