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fringed v/ith soft hairs. The flowers are in long racemes, and 

 are widely bell-shaped, but longer in the tube than the last : 

 they are yellow, veined witli brown on the inside. Native of 

 central Europe. 



D. ochroleuca {Pale- yellow Foxglove). — An erect, rather 

 strong-growing plant, about 3 feet high. The leaves are 

 broadly lance-shaped, much narrowed at the point, and boldly 

 toothed. The flowers are pale yellow, in long, rather loose, 

 leafy racemes, appearing in summer, and lasting a couple of 

 months. Native of central and southern Europe. 



Erinus alpinus {Alpine E.) — A very pretty and interesting 

 alpine plant, suitable only for culture on warm, moist, but well- 

 drained rockwork, in rough, stony, or gritty peat and loam. 

 The plant grows only a few inches high, forming little tufts of 

 bright-green oblong leaves, widening a little upwards, and 

 toothed at the points. The flowers in small flat trusses at 

 first, but afterwards elongating into small loose racemes, are 

 reddish purple, and appear in the early spring months. Native 

 of the mountains of Switzerland and southern Erance. Propa- 

 gate by seeds and division, and when established in congenial 

 quarters it sows and increases itself freely. 



Linaria {Toad-flax). — A very numerous family, mostly com- 

 posed of annual plants, some of which are beautiful border 

 ornaments ; but there are also a tew handsome and interesting 

 perennials adapted for both border and rockwork ornamenta- 

 tion. They mostly succeed well in sandy well-drained loam; 

 but where soil of a different kind is required it will be duly 

 noticed afterwards. Many, indeed most of the species, ripen 

 seed very freely, and by that means often increase themselves 

 abundantly where they grow; but they may all be propagated 

 by division. 



L. alpina {Alpine Toadflax). — A very neat and pretty, 

 somewhat diftuse plant, growing about 6 inches high, the stems 

 being clothed with glaucous linear leaves, usually four together. 

 The flowers are blue, having two bright red spots on the lower 

 lip of each corolla ; they are produced in racemes, and appear 

 in July, and continue for a month or two. Native of the Alps 

 and Pyrenees, in gravelly and stony places. In cultivation the 

 plant is only adapted for rockwork, and should have gritty 

 moist soil and a moist situation. It is described as an annual 

 or biennial in botanical works, but is a good enough perennial 

 in cultivation ; and, besides, seeds and sows itself freely wher- 

 ever the conditions are favourable to its existence. 



L. Cymbalaria {Ivy -leaved Toad-flax). — This is a pretty little 

 trailing species which has naturalised itself very freely all over 



