LINDELOFIA SPECTABILIS. 
is hairy, and disposed to gather into tufts and wide clumps, the plant 
- running underground indeed, but not with the ferocity of the last. 
L. dalmatica, with its form L. macedonica, is the type of the tall 
upstanding Linarias, admirable for any place with their glaucous 
foliage, and their long perennial pyramids of noble golden blossoms, 
but not special for the rock-garden, and to be found in all catalogues. 
L. glacialis magnifies L. alpina, from the highest damp shingles in the 
snow regions of the Sierra Nevada. It isa humble, frail and blue-grey 
plantling, with stems of 3 inches or half a foot, set with fleshy leaves 
in whorls of four, and ending in loose spikes of very large lilac flowers 
as big as those of L. vulgaris, striped with gold and with a Hapsburg 
lip of tawny orange. Seed; for the underground-watered moraine. 
L. glauca is probably the beautiful species that is sometimes seen 
in the high stone-slides of the Cottians and Maritimes—a frail thing 
of many graceful stems, with the habits almost of L. alpina, but 
having the spikes and the ample blossoms of L. vulgaris, our own 
common field Toad-flax or Butter and Eggs,—citron yellow, with an 
orange lip. 
L. nivea, despite the seductiveness of its name, had best be treated 
with caution, lest it reward unwary hospitality in the cuckoo-like 
manner of L. repens, to which it stands so closely allied. 
L. origanifolia. See under Chaenorrhinum origanifolium. 
L. petraea comes quite close to L. alpina, but is a much iess common 
species of looser habit and rather paler flower, usually devoid of the 
orange lip. Its centre is in the Jura, and it may also be found above 
Lanslebourg at some 6500 feet. 
L. pilosa, from the Abruzzi, has much the same stature and blooms 
as L. petraea, but the foliage is hairy. 
L. satureioeides has stems 2 or 3 inches in length with fleshy blue- 
grey leaves arranged in whorls, and loose spikes of pale violet flowers 
with lips of golden velvet. (From the Spanish Alps, &c.) 
L. triornithophora does indeed seem to carry three birds in each 
blossom—three birds, too, of the most vivid rich purple—so strangely 
are its flowers beaked and winged and hooked. It is a very pretty 
erect-growing perennial from Spain and Portugal, about 4 or 5 inches 
in height. 
L. villosa is a downy-hairy species from Spain, with flowers of pale 
violet and stems of some 2 or 3 inches. 
Lindelofia spectabilis is a most beautiful Borragineous plant 
with croziers of large deep-sapphire anchusa-flowers uncurling all the 
summer through on stems and sprays of some 12 or 18 inches. The 
plant is easily to be raised from seed, and of very easy permanent 
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