CLADOTHAMNUS PYROLAEFOLIUS. 
crumpled pink, 18 inches ; C. ladaniferus, as tall and much finer than 
even C. laurifolius, the noble white blossoms having a basal blotch of 
purple ; C. hirsuius, a little sweet bush with the foliage as in C. crispus 
(only not velvety), and yellow flowers; C. monspeliensis, with much 
narrower leaves,.and attaining often to 4 or 6 feet, with smaller 
golden blossoms, often spotted with red, on long fine foot-stalks—a 
very attractive species; C. salvifolius, a most fragrant bush with 
oblong leaves of velvet, and sulphurous flowers, going paler at the 
base, on long fine stems; and C. purpureus, incomparably the best 
of all when the true species is obtained, having narrowish soft green 
leaves, and very large blossoms of a curiously brilliant colour in which 
the pale aniline tone of the family seems to be transfused with almost 
a note of true blood-crimson, so as to communicate an astonishing 
glow to the great bloom, each petal of which has a blotch of maroon 
at the base; while other good species and hybrids are C. lusitanicus, 
the small yellow C. algarvensis, the white-flowered neat-habited 
C.xflorentinus, and C.~xCorbariensis (a hybrid of salvifolius and 
C. populifolius). C. vaginatus, from Teneriffe, with magnificent 
flowers of rich rose, is not safely hardy in most parts of England, 
and all the species, however willing, are creatures of the sun and 
drought, even though many of them will go on happily doing without 
either, with a far greater display of philosophy than human beings who 
have ever experienced those delights, and then been forced to return 
into rain and dark and cold. 
Cladothamnus pyrolaefolius is a small Ericaceous bush from 
the Sitka Sound, producing small bells of reddish pink, and appro- 
priate for any cool peaty corner. 
Claytonias are pretty little weeds, but weeds no less; from 
a single tuft in a garden almost any Claytonia will make itself an 
irrepressible pestilence in five years. There are various species: 
C. caroliniana, sibirica, perfoliata, and virginica—of which C. perfoliata 
has long been trying to thrust its name into the English Flora. These 
are all of much the same value for sowing, and sowing themselves, in 
any cool out-of-the-way place, either sunny or dank; C. caroliniana 
may be taken as their type, making tufts a foot across of oval glossy 
fleshy leaves, from which all through the summer is jetted an in- 
satiable shower of pearl-pink stars on graceful stems. But a more 
alpine species is noble C. megarrhiza, which makes a stout purple 
root-stock in the highest rocks of Wyoming, from which spray forth a 
profusion of big white flowers veined with violet; while in C. aurea 
from Idaho the flowers are no less in size, but brilliantly golden. 
Clintonia, American woodlanders of the Lily family; C. 
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