EUSTOMA ANDREWSIL. 
quite distinct. And there are others still smaller and tidier: but all 
of them are poisonous, alike to eye and taste. 
Eustoma Andrewsii is the one (by courtesy, and the benefit 
of the doubt) hardy species in that noble Gentian-group which yields 
our hothouses Exacum and Lisianthus (ZH. Andrewsii has sometimes 
borne the name of Lisianthus). This glory is found in Colorado, 
sending up a crown of smooth glaucous blue-grey oval leaves from the 
rather fleshy roots; and then, from these, a number of stems from 
4 inches to about a foot high, simple below but sometimes branched 
above, and bearing sprays of the most gorgeous violet flowers, starry 
cups of nearly 2 inches across, each on a long stem of its own. And 
meanwhile the provident plant has also prepared its clump for next 
year, which lurks at the base all through the winter as an evergreen 
rosette. So far this species has hardly if ever been successfully grown 
here; it should probably have a peaty gritty mixture, very loose and 
deep and strong, with abundant moisture in summer, and perfect 
drought in winter, in a warm and sheltered corner. 
Exarrhena. Sce Myosotis. 
F 
Falkia repens is a tender and useless little plant from. the 
Cape which has been most rashiy proclaimed a treasure. 
Farsetia.—I I. clypeolata, eriocarpa, lunarioeides are large yellow- 
flowered Crucifers, with velvety white leaves and fine flat fruits, for 
wails and hot worthless places; the best of the Europeans, perhaps, 
is F. triquetra from Dalmatia. But F. suffruticosa carries us to dif- 
ferent realms and merits; for this is a high-alpine of extreme beauty, 
from Elburs and Russian Armenia, forming a clump of narrow foliage, 
from which rise many stems, simple or sparingly branching, with 
spires of very large and brilliant violet flowers. And another species 
that may have charm is F. pendula, which seems to make a specially 
dense silver-hoary tufted bush of 3 inches high or so, somewhere, 
probably, in Persia. The big species are rather weeds. 
Felicia petiolata is a lush and worthless weed, flopping rankly 
about, and set with insignificant minute and pinkish daisies. But 
F. abyssinica, if it can only be prevailed on to prove hardy, is a 
most lovely small bush of a foot or so in height, like a miniature and 
wire-drawn Rosemary, stiff and dainty and fine, emitting all the 
season innumerable delicious little daisies of softest lilac-lavender, as 
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