BRODIAEA. 
rich feeding dulls the edge of its brilliance, and turns its thoughts 
rather to leaf than to flower. It is not a long-lived plant, but sows 
itself profusely. 
Bottionaea thysantoeides is a Liliaceous thing from Chile, not 
specially hardy or attractive. When well-grown it attains to nearly 
2 feet, with quite narrow blue-green leaves, and loose showers of hairy 
narrow-rayed nodding stars of greenish-white. (T'richopetalum 
gracile.) 
Boykinia, a useful rather than choice race, for cool damp shady 
places by water, very closely allied to Saxifraga. They form masses 
of handsome leafage, roundish kidney-shaped, and fingered into five 
to seven fat lobes; well above these in the summer shoot the many 
leafy stems some 2 feet in height, carrying wide heads of cream-white 
flowers, which, though described by various authorities rather con- 
temptuously as “‘small,” are yet by no means without a certain 
amplitude and solidity of effect, and make quite a handsome show upon 
good clumps. The species to be reckoned with, all being pretty much 
alike, are B. aconitifolia, major, occidentalis, and minor. 
Brasenia peltata is a North-American Aquatic of accepted hardi- 
ness for shallow waters, on the surface of which float its shield-like 
leaves, with fringed brown-purple blooms in July and August. 
Brassica, though in their large clan there are some striking huge 
weeds, offer the rock-garden no comely or congruous Cabbage, unless 
it be the dwarf and golden-flowered B. repanda from Southern Europe, 
which is only some 8 inches in stature; while B. Richeri from the 
Eastern ranges has paler blossoms, and leaves of a glaucous blue- 
green. 
Braya, a race of worthless little alpine cruciferous weeds, some 
of them of the most merciful rarity. 
Brickellia grandiflora, sometimes offered from America in 
terms of the most passionate laudation, proves a thoroughly coarse 
and ugly Composite, in the line of Eupatorium, with showers of 
hanging tasselled heads in dim and dowdy greenish colours. 
Brodiaea, a beautiful race of American bulbs, many of them 
summer-blooming, some of them quite dwarf and choice and brilliant, 
with ample cups of intense violet, some of them tall and splendid, 
with wide sprayed heads of blue, and at least one of them, if allowed 
to remain in the family, a scarlet-belled climber. They all repay 
culture in light soil in sun; on heavy ground and in wet-wintered 
climates they have a tendency to die out in a year or two, but in more 
favoured and home-like districts they make themselves correspond- 
ingly at home, and even seed themselves. Full lists and adequate de- 
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