WAHLENBERGIA. 



rocky places of American mountain woods, and its leaves are rounded- 

 heart-shaped and scalloped, often veined with darker green. 



V. Wiedemannii is a larger and more graceful version of V. jialustris, 

 from the Alps of Anatolia. 



V. Willkommii comes near V. mirabilis, and has little worth. 



V. Zoysii is merely a form of V. calcarata, q.v. 

 Vittadenia australis, from Australasia, trails quite happily 

 about in any light and well-drained soil in a rather sunny, sheltered 

 place, adorning all the later summer with clouds of blushing daisies, 

 springing lonely on long stems in unceasing profusion from the low 

 and finely-branching mass. Far more dainty and delightful still is 

 the even freer and richer-blooming little pink and white daisy, V- tri- 

 loba (Erigeron mucronatus). This is one of the best of edging plants, 

 and its riot of blossoms continues in unceasing elegance from June 

 until they are finally sent home by the frost. Seed, division. 



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Wahlbergella. — A worthless group. See Melandryum. 



Wahlenbergia. — The treatment of this divided and unnatural 

 family has always been confused and arbitrary ; and, for the sake of 

 convenience, we have here left all the cluster-headed group under the 

 name of Edraianthus. There still remain, however, two quite clearly 

 separated sections ; first of all, and close to Edraianthus, the single- 

 flowered prostrate or cushion-forming plants of the Adriatic coasts, the 

 happy home of Edraianthus ; and then the large group of accepted 

 Wahlunbergias, many of them valueless and miserable annuals (we take 

 no account here, for instance, of W . nutabunda, or W. homallanthina), 

 while the rest attain their best development in Australia and New 

 Zealand, where the family fate of confusion seems to have overtaken 

 them. For the sake of avoiding unnecessary bewilderment, let us 

 take these first, then, and throw in at the end that strange and lovely 

 little outlier of the race in the marshes of England and Wales, which 

 would feel so much more at home if left quiet under its old name of 

 Campanula hederacea. 



W. albomarginata, Hook, fil., has some dozen leaves, all in a rosette 

 at tho base, and nearly an inch long, broadish spoon-shaped and green, 

 quite smooth but for a trifling hairiness on their edges and foot-stalk, 

 and earning their white-margined name by having a definite rim of 

 redness often extending to the reverse. The stems are some 2 to 



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