GILLENIA TRIFOLIATA. 
plant, not as attractive as our own G. rivale, though rather in the 
same line. 
G. uniflorum is the only good Geum for our purpose from New 
Zealand, and a really valuable species, for it has the neat dwarf habit 
of G. montanum, with no leaves except at the base, creeping along the 
ground ; and these densely eyelashed leaves are after the ferny style 
of G. reptans, but the flowers on their slender stems of 3 inches or a 
little more are large and fine indeed, as in the rest, but of a pure 
white. 
Not here, however, ends the tale of Geum, but so many are the 
dowdy and unprofitable species alike from the Old World and from 
the New, from the North and the South, that collectors will be 
well advised to look with doubt on any species not engraved upon 
this list, unless it have a full and alluring description of its own. 
Gilia.—This race of flimsy but astonishingly brilliant and lovely 
plants from California and the warm States of the New World (standing 
between Phlox and Polemonium) offers our gardens, indeed, delicious 
dainty annuals or biennials of rare charm, if such things be permitted 
there, in a warm, worthless, sandy place, as GG. Parryae, aurea, aurea 
decora, dianthoeides, androsacea, dichotoma, but it also gives us a few 
good perennials for the same situations (if in rather better though still 
light soil) in that G. pwngens which is now being sent out with the most 
‘«‘bragian boldness” as Phlox Hoodit, being a spiculous-looking, erect 
bushling, of pinky-white stars (with a variety G. p. caespitosa, which 
helps to excuse its false pretences by being a fair copy of Phlox Doug- 
lasit, very densely matted, and densely covered with four-lobed pale- 
white flowers). And there are many others that might be tried in the 
South: G. californica, so lovely with its solid white-eyed blooms of 
silky rose and lilac ; lilacina, Veitchit, Watsonii, the variety Bridgesii 
of G. aggregata (which is only about a foot high, sweet, and with trumpets 
of the most flaming rose-scarlet). And then there is still the little 
prostrate creeping perennial with violet flowers, G. Larseni from Lars’ 
voleanic peak in California ; and G. Nuttailii, about a foot high, with 
divided leaves and many dense clusters of white stars with a yellow 
throat. No others clamour to be catalogued. 
Gillenia trifoliata and G. stipulacea are two gracious plants 
for cool, moist ground, making bushes of some 2 feet high and more, 
with leaves divided into three lobes, and erect, leafy stems that end in 
a loose, wide shower of a few pinky-white stars, very delicate and 
well-bred in effect, if of no dazzling show, suggesting some dim and 
starved Spiraea of scanty bloom. They blossom in full and late 
summer too, so have their especial value in the bog garden or moist, 
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