BOLTONIA. 
of what a plant’s name should not be, They who imposed this dismal 
cacophony on the ‘‘ White Rue” have incurred a heavy responsibility 
in having so long kept out of the garden one of its most daintily 
beautiful beauties. For who is going to show off Boenninghausenia, 
or run the risk of having to masticate such a mouthful, in case some 
enthusiastic inquirer asks what that delicate shower of whiteness 
may be called ? We justly burke the word as being an indecency ; 
and with the word we have also submitted to the loss of the plant. 
But the White Rue can be omitted no longer ; it is a thing so fantasti- 
cally charming, very dainty in habit, and in its glaucous-grey leafage 
and fat leaflets almost suggesting some of the Coronillas. It grows 
about a foot or 18 inches high, with sprays of the most ravishing 
small flowers, pure snow-white, all through the later summer. Its 
range is from moderate elevations of 4000 to 8000 feet, from Marri to 
Sikkim, and thence through those marvellous mountains of Asia 
across into Japan. In cultivation it is accordingly perfectly hardy, 
and needs no more special treatment than the Thalictrum on whose 
habit it so refines. 
Boltonia, big border plants like very floriferous Asters, of which 
B. asteroeides, or B. glastifolia, has flowers white with tinges of pink 
and purple, while B. latisquama, of the same habit, is more purplish ; 
it is often confused, however, with Diplostephium amygdalinum, whose 
other name is Aster umbellatus. 
Bongardia Rauwolfii is a curious small Berberidead from the 
clayey heavy hot fields of the Levant, with a knubbly flattened sort 
of bulb, and finely-feathered basal leaves, often reddened as they lie 
on the ground. Then from the bulb there springs a naked stem of 
8 or 10 inches, with hanging blossoms of golden yellow. This pretty 
curiosity must have light and sandy soil, perfectly drained, yet with 
sufficiency of water in spring, in some corner of sun and shelter. The 
same treatment should be followed for such of the closely-related 
Leontice as come from the Levant—L. leontopetalum, L. Smirnowii, 
Eversmannii, minor, Vesicaria, &c.—all of the same interesting habit, 
with flowers of varying colour, L. altaica being taken by some as a 
synonym of Bongardia, and Caulophyllum being of the same kind. 
Borrago.—The Borrages, as a rule, are coarse and inadmissible, 
and for B. orientalis, this must now be looked for under Psilostemon ; 
but B. laxiflora is a valuable species from Corsica, forming the usual 
basal tuft, indeed, of coarse and bristly leaves, but then emitting long 
prostrate stems that are set, the whole summer through, with large 
upturned stars of a delicate. and very pale clear azure. This plant 
should have, however, only the poorest soil, in the fullest sun; as 
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