WYOMINGIA. 



weeks on end a succession of three-petalled, rounded little flowers of 

 extraordinary diaphanous white, like the ghost of a snowy Trade- 

 scantia long since drowned, very quickly come, and yet more quickly 

 gone again, but succeeding themselves in such profusion that there 

 is never a moment bare of their translucent trefoils of living and 

 shimmering light. Weldenia is still rare and horribly expensive ; yet 

 the beauty is worth more than the pounds demanded in payment. 

 But, alas, there" is as yet no question of multiplication ; this can 

 only be achieved by division, and one would as soon divide one's 

 grandfathor's corpse as an established clump of such a treasure. 



Willemetia stipitata is a Hawkweedish plant of 15 inches 

 and little worth. 



Wulfenia. — These are Scrophulariads of a factitious precious- 

 ness, because one of them happens to be a famous rarity of the 

 Gailthal, where, however, it has earned the oxprossive name of Cow's 

 Walk by its abundance. W '. carinthiaca is a handsome thing enough, 

 but rather coarse and rank, quite easy to raise from its abundant 

 seed, and quite easy to grow in any rich, deep, and rather moist 

 kitchen garden soil or border, where it makes solid clumps and 

 extending colonies of upstanding, thick, smooth leaves, of bright 

 glossy green, lengthily oval, and elegantly scalloped and crimped at 

 the edges ; among which in summer come up crosier-like stems of 10 

 inches or more, unfolding a denso nodding spire of blue flowers (or 

 pink or white) in the way of Veronica Bona-Rota. W. Amherstiae, 

 from the Himalaya, has much less value and brilliance. The rosettes 

 suggest a limp Horminum pyrenaicum, and the flower-spikes a starred 

 and spindly version of that rather dismal weed, with purpled long 

 blossoms drooping at intervals from dark calyces, up tho stem of 

 some 5 or 6 inches ; 17. orientalis lives in the rocks of Northern Syria, 

 and comes nearest to W. carinthiaca, but the foliage is yet thicker 

 and more leathery and more intensely smooth and glossy ; and W. 

 Wallichii is said to be a Himalayan species of much smaller stature 

 than the rest, bearing lilac-blue flowers in June and July, like the 

 rest, on stems of only 4 inches or so. These all should have the 

 soil and fatness appropriate to W. carinthiaca, though in rather 

 choicer places on the well-drained rockwork, where the Cow's Wak 

 is too large and rank to bo admitted, no matter how rare and hand- 

 some and corpulent. 



Wyethias are big yard-high Composites from Amer'ca, that 

 copy Hclianthus. W. angustifolia and W. mollis might bo admitted 

 to dampish cool corners of the wilderness. 

 Wyomingia. See under Aster. 



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