CHELONE. 
blood, and for the same uses in any cool and not too choice corner 
of the rock-work. Hylomécon (Stylophorum) japonicum is lovely 
with its golden flowers in the woods above Nikko in March—a much 
more refined Celandine, of neater, dwarfer habit, and blooms much 
larger and more brilliant. Dicranostigma gathers into its uncouth 
embrace several former Celandines, of which the most famous is 
D. Franchetianum, with glaucous foliage and ample orange golden 
flowers ; the others are D. lactucoeides and D. leptopodum, both species . 
of merit from the fields of China and Tibet. See Appendix. 
Chelone.—tThese are rather dull-lookmg and unrefined Pent- 
stemons, of which the 18-inch Ch. obliqua and the branching yard-high 
Ch. Lyont are sometimes grown in borders, where they bloom from 
August to October. The pride of the family, however, has passed 
away into the rich house of Pentstemon, and must there be looked 
for as P. barbatus. 
Chimaphila, a race of very lovely woodland fairies, closely 
allied to Pyrola, growing in the same light loose accumulation of 
vegetable rottenness, and therefore having developed the same frail 
and wandering root-habit that makes Pyrola also so difficult to 
collect satisfactorily, and re-establish with success. For this reason 
alone it is that Chimaphilas (and one might add, coming nearer 
home, the Pyrolas also) are so rarely seen in gardens. There are not 
so many healthy and established stocks of either to draw upon. None 
the less, if well-rooted pieces are secured and planted in very rich, 
very light and spongy woodland soil (such as that recommended for 
the more difficult Columbines, but in a corner much more deeply 
ensconced under the shade of some little bush of fine Berberis or 
Pinus montana), there you should have no further difficulty with 
either Chimaphila or Pyrola. 
Ch. japonica rambles throughout the mossy forests of Japan, a 
most delicate delicious thing. Suppose that Pyrola uniflora took to 
itself a habit of running about with long shoots trailing and shrubby 
(set with leathery sharply-pointed narrow-oval leaves, toothed at the 
edge), but then at the end sends up not only its ordinary flowers of 
waxy whiteness and celestial sweetness, but two of them into the 
bargain—thus you have a picture of Ch. japonica pervading the 
woods of Japan, with fine upstanding shoots, and blossoms daintily 
depending. 
Ch. maculata is a more solid grower. It forms an upstanding tuft, 
almost a rosette, of oval-pointed broadish foliage, quite keenly and 
occasionally toothed, blotched with white markings on the upper 
face, and of reddish leather below ; then up are sent the flower-stems 
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