ZYGADENUS. 



claim to being hardy, there is little use in dilating on the similar and 

 yet more startling splendours of rose-pink Z. gracilifolia, Z. rosea, 

 Z. Julia, or pearly Z. versicolor, or the snow-pure royal Atamasco 

 Lily, Z. Atamasco. Intending buyers, in saving their pence, will also 

 be saving their tears. 



Zizia aurea and Zozemia absinthifolia are both Umbelli- 

 fers, in varying degrees of dim ugliness or quaint prettiness according 

 as your fancy prompts. Their charm lies only in their fine green 

 foliage, for which they may be, perhaps, admitted to the gardens of 

 the curious. 



Zwachia aurea comes very close to Lithospermum and Moltkia, 

 but the segments of the golden-yellow corollas stand erect, instead of 

 opening out into a star. It will like sunny sites, probably in light 

 soil ; and is a Borragineous species of no special interest, from the 

 Balkans. 



Zygadenus. — These are smaller and less brilliant, but still quite 

 elegant cousins of Xerophyllum, also from North America, but 

 perfectly easy of culture here in light, rich soil, rather cool and 

 inclined to moisture, but thoroughly drained. Here they willingly 

 throw up their frail leafage, and then, in summer, their stems of a 

 foot or less, carrying a loose pyramidal spire of rather largo waxen 

 stars of greenish or creamy white. The most greeny ones are Z. glaucus 

 and Z. chloranthus (the plant sometimes grown in our gardens as 

 Z. elegans) ; white and waxen are Z. Nuttallii, Z. glaberrimus, and 

 Z. Fremontii ; in Z. angustifolius the snow is said to flush ; and 

 yet another species is Z. leimanthoeides. 



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