HEDYSARUM. 
blossom and width of mouth and speckling of gold in a throat of 
lighter or darker tone, so that out of an imported batch you are sure 
of several equally nameable beauties. The plants can be in due 
course divided, and seed can readily be raised, with care. For it is 
very minute, and must have the constant moisture and the constant 
attention that one gives to that of Rhododendron, the seed-pot standing 
in a saucer of water, and having brown paper and then glass over the 
top, which every day is to be removed, while with the point of the tie- 
pin you gently as possible keep open the fine sandy peat on which the 
seed is sown, and remove the slightest sign of stagnation—Marchantia 
or any other of the noxious and cloying green growths that closeness 
so soon engenders. 
Hablitzia tamnoeides.—We will not worry about weeds. 
Habranthus pratensis, a brilliant fire-scarlet Amaryllis, of 
doubtful use except for a tropically torrid sandy corner. 
Hacquetia Epipactis (formerly Dendia) is a pretty little 
curiosity, suggestive of a wee glossy-leaved Astrantia, some 2 or 3 inches 
high, with many-rayed heads of minute golden flowers enclosed in a 
frill of clear-green leaves. This will grow in any decent corner, and 
has its special place among the spring Anemones with whom it blooms, 
Halenia, a little race nearly ailied to Swertia, and of no great 
importance. Under the conditions, however, that suit Swertia they 
may be grown, and have the attraction of their odd flowers, suggesting 
sometimes those of an Epimedium strayed on to the leafy spire of a 
Swertia. H. elliptica is from Himalaya, with tufts of fine green, and 
large flowers; H. Perrottietii, from the Nilgherries, might perhaps be 
only biennial, but has tight spikes of large and handsome clear-blue 
blossom. And there are others whose biennialness is beyond doubt. 
Hamadryas magellanica and H. argentea are strange plants 
from the remotest islands toward the Antarctic Pole. They have 
silky foliage like that of some Buttercup, and then, on upstanding 
stems of 4 inches or so, a single erect bloom of white or pale-yellow, 
with the segments spun out into a long wispy point, so that the flower 
looks like some absurd hybrid between an Anemone and a starfish. 
Harbourea trachypleura is an Umbellifer of no value. 
Hastingsia alba, an unpleasing American Liliaceous species 
near Camassia, with spikes of whitish-green flowers. 
Hedysarum.—Many of these are tallish shrubby plants, unfit for 
our present purpose, unless we include the yard-high H. multijugum, 
beautiful in summer with its many long and erect spikes of rose-purple 
Pea-flowers. Of the lower-growing species there are many, all plants 
- of enormous wandering deep roots, requiring to be established in 
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