HENNINGIA ANISOPTERA. 
Henningia anisoptera isa rather pretty Liliaceous species from 
sandy wastes of the Altai, suggesting Narthecium ossifragum but 
that the leaves are toothed and fleshy and spotted with black, while 
the flowers are white with a black spot at the base of each segment. 
Hepatica. See under Anemone. 
Heracleum, a race of vast and statuesque Umbellifers that have 
no place in the rock-garden, but are of noble effect in the wild. 
Herpolirion Novae Zelandiae is in the same race as Hen- 
ningia—an interesting tiny species forming large mats and masses in 
the sub-aipine swamps, with glaucous crowded rolled-in leaves about 
2 inches long at the most (and the inner ones much shorter), while 
among them, almost stemless, sit largish stars of blue or lilac nearly 
an inch across. 
Hespéris.—Among the large and inelegant race of the Rockets 
lurk two small treasures greatly to be craved for the rock-garden, 
where they should be grown in light soil or moraine in full sun, and 
have their seed sedulously collected, lest they should prove imper- 
manent in proportion to their prettiness. (The remainder, however, 
are professedly perennial, and should gladden us in early summer :) 
H. breviscapa is only 2 or 3 inches high; there are rosettes of 
minute rounded scalloped leaves, and then, from the very base, a 
flower-spike of large bright-pink blossoms. The whole plant is softly 
downy, and dwells in the Alps of Armenia and on Olympus. 
H. humilis (H. Kotschyi—noi _H. Kotschyana, a taller thing) is in the 
same way of charm, but here there is more hoary-greyness and the 
leaves are hardly scalloped at all, and narrower, and drawn more 
gradually to more of a leaf-stalk; but the 3-inch spike is still here, 
and the large flowers ; but this time they are purple. (From the lime- 
stone cliffs of Pisidia, and on Gisyl Tepe of the Cilician Taurus.) 
Taller kinds are H. violacea, H. Kotschyana, and H. bicuspidata ; and 
beautiful, but biennial, is H. thyrsoidea, which from the base becomes a 
wide pyramid of blossom like that of the common Dame’s Violet ; 
and also there is H. secundiflora with elegant long one-sided sprays of 
flowers, sad in a tender sadness of muffled violet which mourns in 
gentle fragrance for the departed day. This is from the shady ghylls 
of Hymettus, Parnes, Sipylus, &c.—perhaps a Niobid transformed long 
since into a dim regretful flower. 
Hesperochiron pumilus is a delicate treasure, cousin of the 
Hydrophyllums, of very dwarf habit, making a tuft of slender stalked 
foliage, and then emitting white bells about half an inch across and 
tinged with purple. This will thrive in any light and well-drained 
loam. As also will H. californicus, in which the flowers are not 
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