ERYTHRAEA. 
E. purpureum, however, far away on Lebanon and Hermon, runs 
it close in the race of charm, and bids high for the prize, with its 
blossoms of sad and lovely purple. It is quite a low species, often 
rather procumbent, and making an almost shrubby growth, w.th 
shoots from 3 to 6 inches long, and the lower leaves feathered almost 
to the base in backward-pointing barbs. 
EH. rupicola. See under #. Kotschyanum. 
E. strophades is an obscure but much-desired Mesopotamian, shin- 
ing silvery, and with many stems of rather more than half a foot, 
carrying flowers that vary from pink to white. 
H. thyrsoeides unfortunately has biennial habits, but is worthy of 
praise for its espec ally dense rosette of long narrow silver leaves, 
from which arises a pyramid of golden flowers as large as Wallflowers, 
clothed in blossom to the very base. (Dry alpine regions of Asia 
Minor.) 
EH. Wheelert carries our hopes to Utah, where it makes masses of 
rough and narrow grey foliage, clumped in a cluster of clumps or in 
a single one, according as the stock itself is simple or branched into 
many crowns. These all, then, send up stems of 6 inches or rather 
more, or a little less, and the large blossoms in which they terminate 
are unable to make up their minds which colour they are going to 
prefer. For they begin with brilliant orange, and then, getting bored 
with this, turn from brown into bright rose, and so on into rich purple, 
ending up, like so many varied careers, with a pallid return to their 
first choice, in the form of soft pale yellow as they fade. 
Erythraea, a lovely race of small Gentians, neat in habit, about 
6 inches high or less, in tidy clumps, with small glossy leaves hidden 
by a profusion of bright waxy rose-pink stars in later summer. They 
are all, however, of either rather tender or biennial temper or both: 
and should occupy cool peaty soil or light loam, not droughty, but 
in full sun. There are many species, all very much alike: such as 
EE. chléodes, pulchella, spicata, grandiflora, &c.; but perhaps the best, 
where all are good, is Z. Massonii, which passes always in catalogues 
under the name of H. diffusa, a specially neat, brilliant, massive, and 
free-flowering little beauty from Corsica. 
Erythrochaete palmatifida—Senecio japonicus. 
Erythronium.—The Dog’s Tooth Violets are among the most 
precious and exquisite things for spring flowermg—not by any means 
duly realised in gardens, where EH. dens-canis, very pretty, but the 
least striking perhaps of all, is often the only one to be seen, and that 
only because it survives from the enthusiasm of Parkinson’s day. 
But there are many more species and garden seedlings, all of the most 
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