UROSPERMUM DALECHAMPII. 



ndulinus is our own Navel-wort, so common with its round 



y leaves in the walls of the South and West, though nol sp 



entrancing with its loose spires of pendent greenery-yallery little 



bells. It has, however, the romance of being a lone exile from the 



• >f its family, happily cast into the shade in more senses than one. 



U. Peskdozzae makes beautiful rosettes of glaucous-blue leaves, 

 dimly toothed hero and there at the edge. The flowers are pale pink, 

 twice as long as their calyx, and so making a dainty show as they 

 hang out in rather one-sided sprays, on their stems of only 4 or 5 inches, 

 in the cliffs of Beryl a gh, Cadmus of Caria, &c. 



U. Semcnowii throws up a foot -high spike of pink and white flowers, 

 in a dense leafy spire like a cat's tail not yet angry to the very tip. 

 They do not emergo far from the foliage, but are pink-and-white, 

 while the rosettes of thorn-tipped and fatly flesh}- foliage are hand- 

 some, and especially prolific of younglings at their base. 



U.Sempervivum is by no means thesame thing as Sediun Semper vivum 

 (though it does pass as Cotyledon Sempervivum). This has rosettes of 

 blunt fat spoon-shaped leaves, attenuated to their bases, and fringed 

 with a toothed margin of membrane rather as in Saxifraga mutata. 

 The blossoms are borne in a sprayed shower in one-sided rows along 

 the sprays : in colour they are purplish, and minutely warty on the 

 outside, like all the plant. 



U. spathulatus spreads freely on the high Alps of Sikkim, sending 

 out many rosettes on stolons from the central clump of broad paddle- 

 shaped leaves, and is generous, too, with its stems of flower, about 

 which gardeners still know too little. 



U. spinosus is picturesque and well known, forming round close 

 rosettes of notably tight and fleshy spine-tipped metallic dark-grey 

 foliage, in a spinous ball, round the base of which emerges an encouraging 

 number of babes, gathered in a neat circle round their mother. The 

 stems are some 4 inches high, opening their yellowish flowers in July. 

 Like all the others it loves summer sun, and jields to nobody in 

 detestation of winter wet. 



Urospermum Dalechampii may be liked by people who affect 

 Hawkweeds. It makes, in any sunny open soil and site, large loose 

 masses a yard across of silvery hairy foliage, rather feathered at the 

 base, ample and abundant ; and up above, on bare stems of a foot or 

 15 inchi s. arises, all the summer through, an unceasing procession 

 oi ereel Hawkweeds or Dandelions of brilliant yellow. It can be 

 divided more readily, as a rule, than grown from seed, and is a plant 

 of furnishing value rather than choice charm. 



Uvularia. — This little family of Woodland Bells has now been 



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