ERPETION RENIFORME. 
blossoms, and all the plant downy-glandular, but rather green than 
grey, and the leaves not only cut into lobes, but those lobes cut again 
into more. (Sierra Nevada.) 
E. tataricum is exactly like beautiful #. supracanum (allowing for 
the essential difference between the groups), but the leaf-stalks of the 
dead leaves remain attached to the stock, and form, in the end, a sort 
of chevaux-de-frise all round its base. The flower-stem is 3 or 4 inches 
high, carrying from two to four blooms in a head, and these have the 
petals unequal, instead of equal as in Z. supracanum. (Dahuria and 
temperate Asia.) 
HYBRIDS OF ERODIUM 
E. absinthoeidesx EH. macradenum is a common garden hybrid, 
rather taller than its parents, and with flowers of paler pink. Nor is 
it to be doubted that each year will bring us more and more named 
mules in this race, such as painfully soon to put our tale of them out 
of date. Few, however, if any, will beat their best originals. 
E. “ Crispii’’ appears on a list as being a hybrid of EL. absin- 
thoeides and E. chrysanthum ; but, as the Crispine E. absinthoeides is 
simply E. chrysanthum under its secondary and invalid name, the 
result should merely be H. chrysanthum again, perhaps improved. 
E. x hybridum= EH. Manescavi x E. daucoeides, and comes near to 
E. Manescavi, but that the flowers are smaller, and fainter in colour, 
while the leaves are finer and fernier. 
E.x Kolbianum (Siind.)= EH. supracanumx EL. macradenum. Tt is 
a most beautiful plant with ash-grey laxer leaflets than in H. supra- 
canum, and the flowers not pale-pink but varying from white to the 
softest shell-colour, veined with lines hardly deeper than their ground. 
E.xlindavicum (Siind.)=H. chrysanthum~ EH. absinth. amanum, 
and has kept the broader leafage of H. chrysanthwm and turned 
chrysanthum’s yellow to an obscurer note. 
E. Wilikommianum (Siind.)=L. cheilanthifoium x LE. macradenum, 
and has yielded an intermediate result, with the leaflets nae and 
hairier than in Z. cheilanthifolium, but a quite downy. 
Erpetion reniforme has gone back to Viola reniformis, q.v. 
Ervum gracile = Vicia unijuga, ¢.v. 
’ Eryngium.—Setting aside the giant species, best fitted for the 
border, and adequately described in any catalogue of such things ; 
setting aside also the terrible species from America which are best 
fitted for the hot and stony wild garden (where their tropical-looking 
foliage, like the tusk of a sword-fish, may have its splendours, and not 
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