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ing, looselv tufted plant, which may lie readily grown in 

 crevices of rocks, rocky banks, or on the sides of sunny 

 ravines. The flowers are small, pinkish-white, very numer- 

 ous. The plant is effective when grown in masses. 



Campion, Lychnis. — Some of these are very old and 

 desirable border plants. Scarlet lychnis (L. Choice- 

 donica) is an erect, tall perennial with ovate-lanceolate 

 leaves, rough hairy stems, and terminal clusters of small, 

 intensely scarlet flowers. The red campion (L. diurnri) 

 has rosy-purple flowers in terminal panicles. There is also a 

 double variety. Of more importance are the large-flowered 

 forms of the Siberian campion (L.fulgens), a species with 

 exceedingly showy, vermilion flowers in loose corymbs. 

 It grows from six to twelve inches high and has hairy, 

 ovate-lanceolate leaves. The best forms are: Haageana, 

 bright scarlet ; grandiflora, with very large scarlet flowers ; 

 Sieboldii, with white flowers. There is a small Alpine 

 species (L. alpind) with pink flowers in terminal heads, 

 and tufts of linear-lanceolate leaves. It grows in the 

 crevices of rocks, generally in moist locations and is pretty 

 in rockeries. 



Catchfly, Silene. — Very beautiful annual or perennial 

 plants, growing wild, mostly in sandy or gravelly soil, and 

 in open woods. S. Schafta is a pretty, dwarf species, with 

 much branched stems, obovate, acute leaves and showy 

 purple flowers all summer. Fine for rockeries. 8. com- 

 patca is of a more upright habit, grows to the height of a 

 foot or eighteen inches, with ovate-cordate leaves and ample 

 corymbs of pink flowers in June or July. The fire pink 

 (S. Virgmica) is a showy American plant growing from 



