LIPPIA REPENS. 
tervals, and slightly branching at the top to carry several specially large 
upstaring flowers of soft lilac-rose. The stems, one or two to a crown, 
are some 12 or 18 inches high, and the entire growth is sticky ; it has 
a stalwart and quite unflax-like effectiveness—a rather rare species of 
the South which may, for instance, be seen on the rough slopes above 
San Dalmazzo de Tenda, in company with Lilium pomponium and 
Aquilegia Reuteri. Into cultivation it is difficult to bring, on account 
of its characteristically, but especially, lignescent unfibred root ; but, 
once obtained, it continues to thrive perpetually, being, of the family, 
the least avid of sunshine, avoiding the hotter slopes where L. tenui- 
folium is thinly and in poor form there luxuriating, to inhabit the folded 
copsy gullies under the cliffs, where things more precious still than 
itself are to be seen. There are variants on the not specially alluring 
vinous mauves of the huge soft flower; once I found a form of really 
lovely lavender-blue, and there is no doubt a white. 
Lippia repens is a rather tender little summer-blooming 
Andine, like a trailing small pinkish Verbena, for warm and sandy 
places, if you please. 
Liriope spicata, a Liliaceous plant from Japan, with tufts of 
dark grass-like foliage, and spikes of small white flowers, for use in the 
South as an edging. 
Lithophragma affinis is a delicate and pretty Saxifrage-cousin 
from damp and mossy woods of California, with stems of some 9 
inches, set at intervals with large white five-pointed stars, whose 
five rays are gashed again, so as to give a look of specially whirligig 
daintiness, as in Witella. 
Lithospermum (including Moltkia).— Worthless plants in this 
race, annuals or weeds or both, are LL. angustifolium, tenucfolium, 
Sibthorbianum, apulum, hispidulum, callosum, incrassatum, pilosum, 
tuberosum. 
L. aureum (Moltkia), a sub-shrub from the hills of Caria, bristly 
with short hairs, and with stiffly ascending short stems with golden 
flowers, and a very short corolla-tube. 
L. canescens is a pretty American species from the sandy woods 
between New Mexico and Saskatchewan. It makes a tuft of narrow 
leaves, hoary when young and silky later on, and gradually growing 
greener but never rough; the stems rise up some 6 inches or more, 
carrying sessile heads of bright orange-yellow flowers, with a pro- 
minent crest in their throat. The plant can be raised from seed and 
multiplied by careful division in spring; it grows with reasonable 
readiness in warm sandy and stony peat very well drained and in a 
sheltered warm exposure, but is, as a rule, no centenarian. 
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