JURINEA ALATA. 
larias, failing in their efforts to be accepted as Phyteumas. One, 
J. perennis, may often be seen in England in summer, with heads of 
small azure fluff on slender stems that suggest a delicate and bright- 
blue Scabious. Others of similar stature, and all of the easiest culture, 
are JJ. Jankae, montana, and amethystina ; smaller and more choice is 
J. humilis, only some 4 inches high, and J. supina, of the same size, 
easily to be raised from seed, and grown in any open soil, probably 
good company-plants for Gentians, though not in themselves either 
desiring or deserving such refinements or society. 
Jasonia tuberosa, a yellow-spiked, stiff-leaved Composite of 
15 inches high, flowering in July and August, and admissible to a 
specially barren, dry, hot place, but valuable nowhere. 
Jeffersonia diphylla (J. binata) is a small North American 
Berberid, very like Epimedium, with divided, shield-shaped leaves, 
blue grey beneath, and little white flowers lonely on a naked stem of 
about a foot high in May ; this thrives in woodland culture, But far 
more precious is J. dubia, from the forests of Manchuria, which must 
be grown in light forest-mould in a sheltered place, where it will freely 
throw up its rounded, scalloped, glaucous leaves of metallic dim-violet 
tone and thinnish texture, each on its fine frail stem of 3 inches or so: 
and, not by any means so freely, its flowers like those of a pallid large 
Hepatica of lovely blue, on similar stems in May or June. Careful 
division. 
Jovellana.—tThis is a sectional name in the vast race of Calceo- 
laria, and has now been revived, for the undoing of the uninstructed, 
as a race-name for the particular group of CALCEOLARIAS that have a 
gaping twi-cleft lip, instead of the usual rounded bag. In any case 
it will be understood that the name means no more than Calceolaria. 
Jurinea alata is but a biennial Composite, but perennials of 
much more worth are J. depressa and J. humilis. They both make 
dense tufts of foliage in the high stony places of the Alps, the one in 
Spain and the former in the Levant. In the case of J. humilis the 
blue heads of blossom sit tight to the tuffet and are about half an inch 
across ; yet more attractive is J. depressa, the only one of this big 
plain Levantine family to call for commendation. For this makes a 
rosette of lyrate leaves, green above and all hoary-cobwebby, lying 
outstretched in their tufts on the ground ; upon the mass appear large 
hemispherical thistles of white or pink, smelling sweetly of vanilla. 
The whole plant indeed, especially the root, is strongly aromatic, and 
makes a popular medicine in the Alps of Anatolia where it lives, and 
where the peasants call it the Musk-rose. These should both be 
raised from seed, and grown in the sunny moraine. 
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