DEINANTHE BIFIDA. 
though finer, longer, and larger than those of D. striata, yet have not 
inherited the full rosy glow of petraea’s; but they have added size, 
and they also have petraca’s throat, dark purplish-rose and velvety 
outside. In constitution this admirable and most precious find 
proves to have more than the vigour and temper of either parent, and 
is likely to prove a treasure in the garden. 
D. Verloti is frequently praised and advertised at high prices. It 
is nothing more than a reasonably attractive local form of D. Cneorum, 
—quite as pretty, perhaps, but certainly no better. 
Deinantheé bifida, for cool, choice, and rich, well-drained 
peaty places, under the lee of rocks, and not suffered to thirst, is a 
strange and noble species of creeping root-stock, and nearly related 
to Saxifraga. Its crinkly great leaves stand up to about 8 inches 
high on their stems, and have the fatness, the crumpliness, the brittle 
gloss and roughness of a Begonia’s; the flowers are at the ends of 
the stems between the divided leaves, inhuman orbs of waxy white 
in clusters, in the latter days of summer. Contemporary, but even 
more enthralling, is D. coerulea, which, with the same habit, the same 
needs, and the same crisp fleshiness of more divided handsomer leaves, 
has larger hanging flowers in a curious and lovely tone of sad pale 
violet, clear yet rich as white marble in shadow at sundown, most 
harmonious to the subtlety of modern taste, and specially attractive 
in so weird a blossom as this, like that of some monstrous waxier 
Pyrola that has known sorrow both wisely and well. 
Delphinium (this list being merely a selection among some of 
the best species for the rock-garden, giants being usually avoided). 
All will come profuse and true from seed; all will thrive in any 
deep rich loam, in full exposure, though not parched or ungenerously 
treated. 
D. alpestre, 4 to 8 inches, a downy plant with fingered foliage, and 
a few large and stocky, blue blossoms. (Alpine rocks of Colorado, 
rare.) 
D. azureum, from the North American Rockies. Formerly taken 
as a variety of D. carolinianum. One to two feet high with simple or 
branching stems and sky-coloured flowers from April to June. 
D. Belladonna. See under D. elatum. 
D. bicolor.—Not more than 12 inches high, stout and sturdy, 
with a lax spike of blooms about half an inch across or more, the upper 
part being yellowish and veined with blue, while the rest is blue. 
D. brachycentron attains some 18 inches, a downy species near 
D. cheilanthifolium, with large wide blue flowers. (Siberia.) 
D. brunonianum is a curiosity from the high Alps of Tibet, not 
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