herbaceous plants. 



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Hedge Nettle, StacJn/s. — Most of these are insignificant 

 weeds; a few are very showy, hut tender. S. Janata is a 

 procumbent plant with hairy, silvery-gray leaves of an ob- 

 long outline; flowers inconspicuous. Nice for rockeries or 

 in carpet bedding. 8. coccmea is a small bushy perennial 

 almost as showy as the scarlet sage but not so large. May 

 be treated in the same way and used for summer bedding 



or in roc 



keries 



THE BORAGE FAMILY. 



Lungwort, Pvlmanaria officinalis. — An attractive, small 

 spring-flowering plant common in open, grassy woods in 

 Europe. Leaves of the root ovate-heart-shaped, 

 of the stem ovate-oblong; stems simple about a 

 foot high ending in a small cyme of red and 

 violet flowers. The following are also very de- 

 sirable : P. angustifolia, blue cowslip; leaves 

 narrower, downy ; flowers in twin racemes, 

 pink, changing into a bright blue; habit and 

 size like the first. P. media rata, leaves spot- 

 ted white; flowers erect, pink. P. mollis, a 

 nice little rock plant, spreading, eight to nine 



FIQ. 152— BLUE 



inches high: flowers numerous, large, blue; (P £°* S ^ P R|A 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate. All but the last are angustifolia*. 

 woodland plants; they may be grown in shrubberies 

 among other flowers, or in rockeries in light and rich soil. 

 Virginian Cowslip, Mertmsia Virginica. — A pretty, rare 

 American plant scattered in low woods in alluvial soil. 

 Very ornamental, with steins a couple of feet high, smooth, 

 almost glaucous, leaves obovate; radical ones petioled. 



