VALERIANA. 



split up by American botanists — who may be considered to have the 



Ay of the race — . U a and 



for the g 'he humble Old World. 1 



. . _ . ome day catch 



out the unwar. al proclamation 



ever. | roc-la imed the a 



half-hardy, long-known, and long . .via ccioraia. in the 



wildest tones of rapture as a beautiful and 



Uvularia, at fa not deserve such condernna: h are 



ail really I r rich woodland soil in here 



they gg .tie frail Sole::- th very much larger bells 



of creamy-yellow, which hang out in spring and __mer from 



rids and upper axils of the graceful sprc. or a foot. 



:nd there :val-pointed le 



rally brilliant is U. grandiflora, which in even an open 

 form masses a yard through and a foot high, abou: 

 in the beauty of it- M i?.r is 



U. perfoliata. with the leaves more in number, and more closely ck 



. are U. puberula and U. - 

 Ther gated-leaved plant, lookn . 1 racaena, which 



orum sessile, which may I 

 to Uvular collected clumps have that interesting 



trait that I have already noted about th-: :ipedium ; for 



they evidently grow and root only in th 1 vegetable rich] 



of each season., the:: -ting out flat on all 



- irom the little tuber 3. And - Api ndix, 



Valeriana, — The ve hardly any attraction at 



ail. even ior the wild garden ; but the n i extreme from 



the gawky dinn hese, affords ral high-alpines of m 



and meek charm, not specially skov. pleasant and unassuming 



re all plants that spread an lite readily 



in light soil, and especially in moraine, where their mild presence and 

 the evergreen foliage of some mak- effect. They are e.. - 



divide at any time, and bloom through summer into the later months. 



V. arizonica, on the contrary, is an ea: producing heads 



of not very brilliant pinkish flowers on hexed 



leafage in March. 



W" 417 ii. — 2 d 



