3 5 o f>erbaceous plants. 



THE WATER-LEAF FAMILY. 



Blue Eyes, NemopMla insignis. — A very beautiful an- 

 nual with pinnate leaves, deeply cut leaflets, slender stems, 

 and numerous sky-blue flowers in summer. 

 The flowers measure an inch across. When 

 sown in beds it forms dense masses of leaves 

 and flowers about eight inches high. X. atoma- 

 '^f^'y r ia } white with numerous purplish-blue dots. 

 • ' N~. maculata, flowers large, white, with a deep 



tednemophila violet blotch on each lobe. N. discoidalis, 



(NEMOPHILA MAC- . , , . - , . ., 



ulatai. chocolate-brown with white border. All are 



charming summer flowers of the easiest culture. To be 

 sown in a bed or border early in spring. 



THE P0LEM0NIUM FAMILY. 



Phlox. — Very beautiful annual and perennial herbs of 

 an erect or trailing habit, flowering in spring, summer, and 

 autumn. The best spring- 

 flowering kinds are : P. 

 subulata, the moss pink ; 

 leaves awl-shaped ; stems *\ 

 procumbent, forming fig. 154. -moss pink (phlox subulata). 

 dense mats of foliage; flowers very numerous, pink or rosy- 

 purple, sometimes white, in small clusters. Fine for dry 

 ground, for naturalizing on barren hillsides. P. amoena, 

 stems ascending, from six inches to a foot high, forming 

 spreadiug masses; leaves lanceolate; flowers corymbose, 

 purple, pink, or white. Rockeries or barren ground. P. 

 reptans, stemless, spreading by runners forming rosettes 

 of obovate leaves ; flowering stems nearly bare, with a large 

 corymb of purple or violet flowers. Common in moist 



