296 Herbaceous plants. 



ing, loosely tufted plant, which may be 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 (Z. Chalce- 

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

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

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

 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. fulg'ens), 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 : Haageand, 

 bright scarlet ; grandiflora, with very large scarlet flowers ; 

 Sieboldii, with white flowers. There is a small Alpine 

 species (L. cdpina) 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. Scliafta 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. Virginica) is a showy American plant growing from 



